Black and white photograph of a view to a group of huts for housing women patients at the leper colony run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. The huts are neatly arranged in lines, and can be seen through a tree and scrubland area. The caption to this image reads: "Women's town L.C Christmas 1932." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, also run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.
Health services Missionary work Hospitals Leprosy Leprosy--Hospitals Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Exterior views
Time Period
1927/1937
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Uzuakoli medical facilities: Uzuakoli Leper Colony
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