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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information       More by this author     Whittier, M. Jean, 1898-     Subjects     Whittier, M. Jean, 1898-     Missionaries, Medical -- India -- Banswārā (District) -- Biography.     Women physicians -- India -- Banswārā (District) -- Biography.     Women physicians -- Canada -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.     Bānswāra (India : District) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Whittier, M. Jean, 1898-       by title:      My life tapestry: In...       by call number:      610.92 W625m     Search the Web     Whittier, M. Jean, 1898-     Whittier, M. Jean, 1898-     Missionaries, Medical -- India -- Banswārā (District) -- Biography.     Women physicians -- India -- Banswārā (District) -- Biography.     Women physicians -- Canada -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.     Bānswāra (India : District) -- Biography.       MARC Display

My life tapestry: India and around the world : memories and meditations / M. Jean Whittier. by Whittier, M. Jean, 1898- M.J. Whittier, c1979. Call #: 610.92 W625m Subjects Whittier, M. Jean, 1898-   Missionaries, Medical -- India -- Banswārā (District) -- Biography.   Women physicians -- India -- Banswārā (District) -- Biography.   Women physicians -- Canada -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.   Bānswāra (India : District) -- Biography. Description:  62 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Summary:  "Jean Whittier (class of 1929) grew up on a farm in Rawdon, Nova Scotia. Her mother died when she was fifteen, so her father's sister took care of her, her sister, Catherine (M.D., Tor., 1927), and a brother, Ralph. "Auntie" went everywhere with her, including to India, and kept house for her after her father died. Jean was found to have "early tuberculosis" during her second year at medical school, but this did not deter her in her studies. It did, however, deter her internship, as she felt she might not be able to cope with the demands on her health. Three years later she interned in The Women's College Hospital, in Toronto, for one year, and then completed one year at the United Church Training School. Her sister had gone to India as a medical missionary in 1927, and Jean was anxious to join her. She was accepted, and when Catherine returned on her first furlough, Jean and Auntie went with her. Following a year of language study, Jean was appointed to the hospital at Banswara. Her major work was in this hospital, but she also served in Neemuch, Ratlam and Indore before returning to Banswara. By the time she retired the hospital had grown from one small bungalow to a 120-bed hospital, with a dispensary and a training school for nurses. She stated that at one time she was "Chief of Surgery, Chief of Medicine, Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chief of Pediatrics, and Head of the tuberculosis wards". One of her most frequent tasks was delivering babies, many by Caesarean section. She taught a midwifery program, and the students were required to deliver twenty babies and attend five difficult births, "So I did the abnormals and they did the others", said Jean. In 1966 Jean retired, and lived in Toronto. She spent her summers in the family home in Rawdon. There she wrote her autobiography, under the title My Life's Tapestry. She died in April 1987."--From the Nova Scotia Medical Journal, February 1990. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Local History Collection 610.92 W625m Non-circulating Closed Stacks Add Copy to MyList

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