Black and white photograph showing a group of nursing staff at the Ama Achara hospital in southeast Nigeria run by the Methodist Missionary Society, taken in October 1943. The group is mostly made up of female nursing staff in uniform, and one male member of the nursing staff. Matron of the hospital, Emily Godfrey, sits in the centre of the group. Emily Godfrey worked at the hospital from 1921 to 1944. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey.
Nursing Health services Missionary work Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Women missionaries Nurses Missionaries, medical Hospitals Group portraits
Time Period
1938/1948
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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