Nursing care in the bush missionary Marguerite Anker giving an injection to a young man Behind her, a male nurse is about to apply a iodine solution and remove the tourniquet. Comment : Marguerite Anker (1894-1974) was a missionary of the PEMS (Paris evangelical missionary society), sent to New Caledonia from 1925 till 1956, as nurse.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 5,5x8,2 cm photographs
Anker, Marguerite Missionary nurse Medical missionary work Missionary woman Indigenous populations Nursing Paris evangelical missionary society (1822-1971) (SMEP)
Place
Lifou (New Caledonia) Loyalty Islands New Caledonia Oceania
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