Thanjavur: Visiting the places where one's ancestors worked is both a matter of reverence and reminiscences.
Ms. Helen Kyete, granddaughter of Mr.William RJ Scroggie, former Medical Superintendent of Thanjavur Medical School (1920), now called Rajah Mirasudhar Government Hospital (RMH) at Thanjavur, came to the hospital on Wednesday to see the workplace of her grandfather.
Kyete is living at Birmingham now. "I came to Thanjavur to see the hospital where he worked," she told DC. RMH now, was started as a Medical School in1875 and was functioning at the Leprosy ward near the Opthalmic section at the RMH complex.
"My grandfather worked as medical superintendent of the Medical school in 1927. Earlier, he worked at Chennai and Kolkatta. He lived in a house near the place where the medical school functioned. Now the house is locked. I saw that," Kyete said.
"The students of the Medical school gave farewell wishes to my grandfather. I am keeping it and now I am taking photographs of the places he visited," she said.
Kyete met Dr Vanitha Mani, dean of Thanjavur Medical College and presented a shawl to her. She saw the portrait of Scroggie at the dean's chamber. Kyete also wanted to donate Rs 25,000 to the hospital. But the dean urged her to donate in kind to the hospital.
