Black and white photograph featuring a group of patients crowded into the courtyard of the hospital at Ama Achara, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. Nigerian medical staff wear white uniforms, and a female missionary in a light dress stands with the group. An annotation on the back of the photograph reads: "Monday morning at dispensary. Mothers with children awaiting injection for yaws." Yaws was a bacterial infection of the skin, bones and joints particularly common in tropical areas. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Health services Missionary work Nursing Patients Hospitals Injections Women missionaries Yaws Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1922/1932
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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