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Description
“The medical staff CSM Kenya. Backrow A.C.I [Archibald Clive Irvine], Hon Dr Maclay, Dr Gillan. Lower row Dr Philp, Miss Macmurtrie, Dr Arthur. Taken at council meeting, T/T in 1929.” Group portrait of mission staff sitting on the steps up to a house. Probably during the conference where the legality and health issues of female circumcision were debated ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
Arthur, John William, Medical Missionary, Kikuyu, Kenya, 1881-1952 Irvine, Archibald Clive, missionary, Chogoria, 1893-1974 McMurtrie, Miss, Nurse, Kikuyu, Kenya, fl.1926 Philp, Horace Robert Andrew, Medical missionary, Tumutumu, Kenya, 1883-1956 Health care Medical personnel Group portraits Meetings
Time Period
1929
Place
Africa Central Province Kenya Tumutumu
Source
Acc.12016/7 [Reference number] NLS DOD ID: 97124956 [File]
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