Black and white photograph showing a Nigerian nurse at the hospital in Ama Achara, southeast Nigeria, run by the Methodist Missionary Society. She stands with a girl patient, who is naked except for a necklace around her neck and a bandage around the middle of her body. The caption of this image reads: "Adeline & little liver abscess case." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Health services Nursing Missionary work Hospitals Nurses Patients Abscess Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1930/1940
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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