Ida S. Scudder

She sought to improve the plight of Indian women by fighting against bubonic plague, cholera and leprosy.

[1] In 1890, she returned to India to help her father when her mother was ailing at the mission bungalow at Tindivanam in the Madras Province.

She then headed back to India and started a tiny medical dispensary and clinic for women at Vellore, 75 miles from Madras.

[8] In 1952, Scudder received the Elizabeth Blackwell Citation from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, as one of 1952's five outstanding women doctors.

[11][12] In 1960, Rajendra Prasad, then President of India, hailed Scudder as a “great lady, whose dedication and planned working are exemplary”.