Male nurse weighing baby, Nigeria, ca. 1936

Black and white photograph showing a male nurse at the hospital at Ama Achara run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The nurse, wearing a white coat, stands next to a table and weighs a small baby in a smock dress on a scale. This weighing programme was part of the welfare work carried out by the hospital at Ama Achara. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.