Black and white photograph showing a Nigerian nurse at the Ama Achara hospital run by the Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria. She is working with a group of Nigerian women and their babies on a welfare day at the hospital. The nurse sits behind a table, on which is a scale. A Nigerian mother has placed her baby onto the scale and is weighing him. Other mothers and their babies queue for a weight check. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Hospitals Mothers Infants Clinics Nurses Missionary work Nursing Paramedical personnel Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1931/1941
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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