Black and white photograph featuring a group of women workers for the Methodist Missionary Society at their leper colony at Uzuakoli, southeast Nigeria. The missionaries stand in front of a building with a corrugated iron roof. The women wear smart white dresses (probably uniforms) or patterned dresses. A motor car can be seen in the background. The caption next to this image reads: "Women workers. Taken at Leper Colony - Dr Ross' house. Jan 1944. Day of colony meeting." 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 Groups Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Women missionaries Hospitals Leprosy Group portraits
Time Period
1939/1949
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Uzuakoli medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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