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The '''Women’s Medical Service for India''' (also referred to as the '''Women’s Medical Service''') was a [[Publicly funded health care|state-funded medical service]] for [[Woman|women]] in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]]. Until its foundation in 1913, medical care for women in India was limited to that provided by [[Missionary|missionaries]] or charities like the [[Countess of Dufferin Fund]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Founding the Women's Medical Service in India: The Colonial State and the 'Medical Needs' of Indian Women - Oxford Scholarship|language=en|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198096603.001.0001|year=2013|last1=Sehrawat|first1=Samiksha|isbn=9780198096603}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=December 1913|title=The Women's Medical Service|journal=The Indian Medical Gazette|volume=48|issue=12|pages=477–478|issn=0019-5863|pmc=5177146|pmid=29005794}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1924-08-30|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(01)35671-4/abstract|journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=204|issue=5270|pages=464|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(01)35671-4|issn=0140-6736|title=Women's Medical Service for India}}</ref> Both British and Indian women could apply to work in the service: an article in [[The Lancet]] in 1923 noted that recruits from Britain would have first class passage paid and that although the rates of pay are lower than in the Indian Medical Service, lodging is provided and the duties are lighter.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Women's Medical Service of India|journal=The Lancet|volume=25 August 1923|pages=421–422}}</ref>

[[Margaret Ida Balfour]] served as its first director until she retired in 1924.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2013/10/one-of-the-great-leaders-among-medical-women-in-india/|title=One of the great leaders among medical women in India|work=Wellcome Library|access-date=2017-11-24|language=en-us}}</ref> [[Charlotte Leighton Houlton]] was the service's Chief Medical Officer from 1935 to 1939.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rai|first=Saurav Kumar|date=2014|title=Indianization of the Indian Medical Service, c. 1890s-1930s|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44158466|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|volume=75|pages=830-832|issn=2249-1937}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Indian Medical Service]]

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