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"Leper woman feeding another." Portrait of two indigenous women, one of whom has lost the fingers of both hands and is being fed by the other. Purulia was the home of a Leprosy Asylum founded by Rev. Henry Uffman who had approached Wellesley Bailey and the Mission to Lepers, for financial support. Rev. Uffman’s daughter Mary died from leprosy, aged 8. The station at Purulia was run by the Gossner Mission Society. This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman.
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