Elizabeth Pais
Former general practitioner Hove (b India 20 November 1909; q Lady Hardinge
College, Delhi, India, 1935), died from old age on 2 April 2004 in Sompting,
Sussex.
She commenced her medical career as chief medical officer in the North
West Frontier District of India.
Returning to Lady Hardinge she was appointed assistant professor of anatomy.
She married a doctor and moved south and worked in Mangalore for a short
period prior to emigrating to Tanganyika, where they both worked in the Aga
Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam. Deciding to go into general practice, they
set up a successful practice partnership and a maternity home. Her husband
died in 1959, leaving her to continue singlehanded. In 1967 she left Tanzania
for the UK and settled in Hove, Sussex. It wasn’t long before she set up
in general practice again. She maintained her interest in obstetrics by obtaining
the DRCOG, and attended her patients at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.
Medicine was her life, so retirement, when it came, was accepted reluctantly.
She leaves three children and seven grandchildren. [W A Pais]