Black and white photograph of a Nigerian woman standing in front of a building in the leper colony run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in Uzuakoli, Nigeria. The caption to this slide reads: "Washerwoman (a leper) Uzuakoli, 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 run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.
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Time Period
1927/1937
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Uzuakoli medical facilities: Uzuakoli Leper Colony
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