In 1872, the Church of Scotland Mission, which had set up several schools in the Madras Presidency, had recorded how a couple of schools were shut down over mounting debts. It also pointed to the lack of female teachers in the other institutions that were still running. William Stevenson, the Secretary of Free Church of Scotland Mission recorded this in an April 10, 1872 letter addressed to J.C. Loch, the President of the Municipal Commission. This letter found a citation in the Results of the Educational Census of Madras 1871 published subsequently.
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