STERLING SERVICE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1933, Page 6

STERLING SERVICE

WO .MAN DOCTOR AAIOXG LEPERS

DEATH RECENTLY .ANNOUNCED

Th e death was reported recently. from .Dichpali, the Leper Hospital settleiiTent outside. Nizamabad, of Dr lsobel .Kerr, the Scottish medical missionary, who made this famous institution the unest prominent centre in South India for the treatment of leprosy and for training in diagnosis and treatment. Since •Sir Leonard Rogers, at the Leper Research Centre at Calcutta, discovered: the way to remedy and. in early cases, to cure leprosy by th. f > injection of the essential principle of chaulmoogi a oil, Dr Kerr, working in: close co-operation wjth Dr Ernest Muir, S>'' Leonard Roger's successor, probably did .more than any other person to demonstrate tlie immense value of the discovery •and to prove that, in her own words, '•/‘no child meed grow up a .’epo.r.” Dr Ker r was horn at Foehn bors.onSpev in 1875. She graduated M.R. and. Ch.B. at Aberdeen in 1903. and went t O . India with her husband, Iho Rev. George M. Kerr, who is superintendent of the Wesleyan Misdon station at 'Nizamabad. She had charge tor 12 yeaivs of the mission hospital there until ■ the foundation of the Dichpali lioiner wherc husband and wife winked devotedly ever since. In 1923 sir? was awarded the KaDar-j-Hind gold medal in .recognition of her services. Personally, Dr Kerr was a modest, quiet, and very lovable woman. proles,wi'killy, she was a keen,, sound, iskiß'ul and dc•voted doct-.r, who rendered great service to India.