Black and white photograph showing a family of four patients waiting for treatment at the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, run by the Methodist Missionary Society (formerly the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.) They are waiting for injections to combat yaws, a bacterial disease active in tropical areas affecting skin, bones and joints. The caption to this image reads: "Some cases of yaws awaiting injection." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara hospital.
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