Alice Marietta Marval (26 January 1865 – 4 January 1904) popularly known as Dr Alice Marval of Cawnpore, was an

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and

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who built a hospital in India to serve women and children who were excluded from conventional medical facilities in

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(presently

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). She died after contracting the

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Life

Marval from

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qualified "rather late in life" as a doctor when she was only 36. After volunteering for missionary work, she was sent from

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in 1899 under the SPG Mission (now

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) to build a new hospital and dispensary. St. Catherine's Hospital was established to provide free services and was staffed entirely by women with the goal of serving the needs of local women and children who were being "shut out by custom from normal medical attendance." When the

descended on Cawnpore, Marval tended to her patients vigilantly and in the last month of her life, she visited 246 patients. She died in 1904 after contracting the disease and was buried at Subedar Ka Talao Cemetery (now Christians Graveyard) in Cawnpore. At St Catherine's Hospital, Marval was the second (after Edith Mary Brown) to found a nursing school for women in India. It still serves the poor and weaker sections of society in Kanpur.

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