Ratan, Nagpur, India, ca.1927

"Ratan - the hospital pet." Portrait of a young indigenous girl. Stephen Hislop (1817-1863) was charged, by the Free Church of Scotland, with setting up a mission in Nagpur in 1845 which had been endowed by an army officer, Brigadier W. Hill. Based 10 miles from Nagpur at Kamptee, a military camp situated on the Kanhan River, he taught at the school. ❧ The hospital, which was founded by Dr Agnes Elizabeth Henderson in 1896, contained several wards including a children's and isolation ward.