Black and white photograph showing a scene at the Christmas celebrations in 1938 at the hospital in Ama Achara southeast Nigeria, which was run by the Methodist Missionary Society. Two small children sit in a wooden cot in the hospital grounds. Three Nigerian children and one European girl sit in a row on stools next to them. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Customs and traditions Children Health services Infants Hospitals Christmas Festivals Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society General views
Time Period
1933/1943
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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