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Title: Patients from the Leprosarium, Chogoria, Kenya, ca.1936
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1936
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
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Description: “Lepers being dressed.” Group portrait of medical dressers tending to patients. The Leprosy wards at Chogoria were isolated from the rest of the hospital on a spur of land called Gatheru overlooking the Kamara valley. ❧ The image is from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the period from 1928-1947 at the Chogoria mission which was established near Mt Kenya, in 1922, and run by Dr Irvine.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 16 x 11.1 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-97123218-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82255
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97123218-1.jpg
Subject: Health care
Leprosy
Medical personnel
Patients
Time Period: circa 1936
Place: Africa
Chogoria
Eastern Province
Kenya
Source: Acc.12016/8 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97123216 [File]
Relation: Chogoria 1930-1947
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
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