Black and white photograph showing a baby at a clinic in the Ama Achara hospital in southeast Nigeria run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The baby sits on a scale (made by the United Kingdom company, W & T Avery Ltd., Birmingham.) The child wears a string of beads across his body and places his hand on the counterweight of the scales. His mother stands by and watches him. A male nurse at the hospitals sits in the background in a white coat. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Infants Clinics Hospitals Nurses Missionary work Health services Nursing Children Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1933/1943
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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