Black and white photograph showing a group of Nigerian patients and Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara hospital run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria. Godfrey is seen bandaging a wound for a standing patient. Other patients stand and crouch in a hospital yard with steel bowls, to be used for washing their own wounds. The caption to this image reads: "Patients washing wounds, E. Godfrey binding one." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey.
Health services Nursing Missionary work Hospitals Women missionaries Patients Wounds and injuries Bandages and bandaging Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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