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'''The Salvation Army Catherine Booth Hospital''' (CBH) is a hospital and [[nursing school]] run by the [[Salvation Army]] in [[Nagercoil]], [[Kanyakumari district|Kanyakumari]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]].<ref name="Gariepy2009">{{cite book|last=Gariepy|first=Henry|title=Christianity in Action: The International History of the Salvation Army|url=https://archive.org/details/christianityinac0000gari|url-access=registration|accessdate=5 February 2013|date=2009-10-15|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=9780802848413|pages=[https://archive.org/details/christianityinac0000gari/page/216 216]–}}</ref><br />
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It is named after [[Catherine Booth]], the wife of [[William Booth]], the founder of the Salvation Army. This hospital was started by Capt. <br />
Henry John (Harry) Andrews, in the year of 1893. After he called by father of the medical work in the worldwide salvation army.<br />
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This mission hospital is situated at [[Vadasery]], Nagercoil, which is 18 &nbsp;km away from Kanyakumari. It was started in 1893 when missionary Harry Andrews treated the first patient in a tiny bath room. Since then it has grown into a 300-bed general hospital with departments of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, and otorhinolaryngology.<br />
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== School of nursing ==<br />
The school of nursing was added in 1938.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111110233554/http://picasaweb.google.com/almamater.cbh/CatherineBoothHospital Catherine Booth Hospital]; Picasaweb<br />
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