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"The Hospital Blantyre, Rev. Alex Hetherwick D D, Rev. R. H. Napier, Rev J. Smith, Rev James Reid, Mr F. Bowman, Mr Burnet, Miss Smith, Miss Beck, Mrs Reid, Mr McIlwain, Mrs & Miss McIlwain, Mr Currie, Dr Caverhill, Mrs Currie”. Group portrait taken on the steps of Blantyre hospital. Blantyre Mission Hospital’s male ward was built in 1896 and its female ward in 1897, it was situated on a ridge 400 yards above the rest of the Blantyre mission buildings. The wards formed either end of a compound with a third side built for European nursing staff the fourth was to become the dispensary, laboratory, outpatients and consulting room. Later two additional isolation wards were built. Rev. Alexander Hetherwick (1860-1939) was an accomplished linguist and translated the New Testament in to the Yao language. Mr F. W. Bowman helped establish a school at Chiuta, forty miles north of Domasi. Rev. James Reid was initially general agent at Blantyre from 1891. Rev. Robert Hellier Napier (1884-1918), educated at the University of Glasgow, and ordained in Dunblane in 1908. He arrived at Blantyre on the 16th June 1909 and was killed in action in Portuguese East Africa during the First World War. From a Photograph Album of the Blantyre Mission, Nyasaland [Malawi] and the Mihecani Mission, Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique].
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