MARKING 100TH ANNIVERSARY SINCE THE DEATH OF GREAT DOCTOR AND HUMANITARIAN ELSIE INGLIS
September 21st
Nis City Mayor Darko Bulatovic together with associates met today with the descendants of doctor Elsie Inglis, a great humanitarian and the founder of Scottish Women’s Hospital. The Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Services (SWH) was founded in 1914. They provided nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, cooks and orderlies. By the end of World War I 14 medical units had been outfitted and sent to serve in Corsica, France, Malta, Romania, Russia, Salonika and Serbia. Elsie Inglis, herself, went with the teams sent to Serbia where her presence and work in improving hygiene reduced typhus and other epidemics that had been raging there. In April 1916, Elsie Inglis became the first woman to be awarded the Order of the White Eagle (V class) by the Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia at a ceremony in London. She had previously been awarded the Order of Saint Sava (III class).
