This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... only to that noble lady, but to the other members of the Committee instituted through her initiative. The unfortunate refugees themselves will for ever preserve with profound gratitude the memory of these acts of benevolence." Simultaneously with the arrival of this royal recognition came a message from the Turkish ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... only to that noble lady, but to the other members of the Committee instituted through her initiative. The unfortunate refugees themselves will for ever preserve with profound gratitude the memory of these acts of benevolence." Simultaneously with the arrival of this royal recognition came a message from the Turkish ladies in Constantinople to the Baroness, which was also transmitted through theTurkish Ambassador. Lady Layard was likewise the recipient of more than one thoroughly deserved address of thanksf for her exertions in the cause of suffering humanity, and of a still more signal compliment in the form of invitations to accompany her husband to dine with the Sultan on several occasions privately, a thing unknown in the annals of the Ottoman Empire. His Majesty also founded the Order of the Shefket (Mercy) in honour of Lady Layard and the ladies who were working with her, as a recognition of what they were doing for the refugees. With the Queen's permission her ladyship received the first Grand Cross and Cordon of the Order, with which she was invested by the Sultan himself; a similar Cross and Cordon being sent by His Majesty, through the Turkish Ambassador in London, to the Baroness. Sickness, chiefly fever and dysentery, now began to make headway in Constantinople. At Tchamladja, a suburb of Scutari on the Asiatic side, where there were about 1,200 refugees, fully two-thirds of the number were suffering from illness in one form or another, and it was decided to open a hospital to accommodate fifty patients there, and to supplement it by a soup kitchen, the house placed at the disposal of the Local Committee, composed of Turkish gentlemen, for use as a hospital, being admirably adapted for both purposes. On the 21st of September, Lady Layard op...
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