Dichpali, Hyderabad: laying the foundation stone of the new men's hospital at the leprosy hospital. Photograph by G.M. Kerr, 1935.

  • Kerr, George McGlashan, 1874-1950.
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13 Dec[ember] 1935
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749712i
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The hospital was founded in 1915 by Dr Isabel Kerr, who from 1921 launched "a pioneering program of treatment for leprosy following the discovery of the effectiveness of injections of hyndocarpus [i.e. hydnocarpus] oil by Edwin Muir and Leonard Rogers" (website of Undiscovered Scotland, accessed 15 April 2010). There is an obituary of her (without portrait) in The lancet, 31 December 1932, pp. 1460-1461

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13 Dec[ember] 1935.

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 18.9 x 28.2 cm

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Dichpali India ... taken by Rev. G.M. Kerr. ... Lettering on verso: "The men's hospital foundation stone laying 13 Dec 1935. The foundation stone was laid by Lady Akbar Hydari (wife of Sir Akbar Hydari, Minister of Finance to the State and most prominent Indian member of the Round Table Conferences in London)"

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William Schupbach, 'Portrait of a lady in Nizamabad: Isabel Kerr' https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210313023312/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2012/02/portrait-of-a-lady-in-nizamabad-isabel-kerr-wellcome-library-item-of-the-month/

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Wellcome Collection 749712i

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