Women waiting in front of the gynaecological hospital, Usoke, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Ussoke, Hospital. Frauen warten vor der Frauenklinik. Strasse mit Kapokbäumen, im Hintergrund Wohnhaus von Geschw. Seibt" ("Ussoke, hospital. Women are waiting in front of the gynaecological hospital. Road with kapok trees, in the background residential house of br[ethren] Seibt"). The gynaecological hospital building on the right. It is a small house with a thatched roof. On the left a dirt road lined with trees. Several women in front of the building, some are standing, some are sitting. In the background, at the end of the road, a large house. c.f. pictures nos. 9200, 9182, 9172. These pictures show other parts of the hospital in Usoke.--August Seibt (1875-1943) was a teacher and a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. He served in Unyamwezi (1904-1916) and Usoke (1930-1937). In 1905 he married Frieda Scholz. They returned to Germany in 1937.--Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) is a tropical tree native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and to tropical west Africa. The word is also used for the fibre obtained from its seed pods. The tree is also known as the Java cotton, Java kapok, or ceiba. The tree can grow to 60-70 m.--Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).