“Our biggest building* the main hospital built in 1925. In that year we admitted over 300 in-patients & registered 17,000 out-patient attendances. Our hospital, with lepers, tuberculosis and yaws isolation wards will accommodate 60 in-patients. [As seen] *in 1927.” Exterior view of the main hospital building at Chogoria. The hospital consisted of two wards, set at an angle to each other, with the hospital facilities connecting them. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80577
- Dates
- 1927
- Pages
- Photographic prints, 17.9 x 12.3 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Chogoria Eastern Province Kenya
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Kenya
- Reference
- impa-a-nls-97124697-1.tif
- Rights
- For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/1b67d707cdd2ebf7f82fb56edcfdad9d
