Black and white photograph featuring a Nigerian mother sitting on a wooden chair holding a small baby. She sits in the grounds of the general hospital run at Ituk Mbam in east Nigeria, a facility run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The caption to the image reads: "Mother & Baby (Bura case) Ituk Mbam." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, also run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
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