Lolowai Maternity Hospital, Aoba, New Hebrides [now Vanuatu]

Groups include: teacher students; nurse and patient; lepers, Louise, Beatrice, Oscar and Alfred; Sister Cunnold and Sister Curwen with nurses; mothercraft class. People include: Archdeacon Teall and Archdeacon Reynolds; baby in maternity ward. Events include: Bishop's visit, October 1959. Places or...

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Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/26, Box 38
Date(s) of creation: c. 1940 - c.1970
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MM.07.4.26
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with Melanesian Mission 7/26, Box 38
callnumber MM/07/4/26
callnumber_txt MM/07/4/26
callnumber-sort MM/07/4/26
prefix_number 26
scb_previous_numbers File 18
title Lolowai Maternity Hospital, Aoba, New Hebrides [now Vanuatu]
scb_date_creation c. 1940 - c.1970
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 34 silver gelatin prints
format Archive
description Groups include: teacher students; nurse and patient; lepers, Louise, Beatrice, Oscar and Alfred; Sister Cunnold and Sister Curwen with nurses; mothercraft class. People include: Archdeacon Teall and Archdeacon Reynolds; baby in maternity ward. Events include: Bishop's visit, October 1959. Places or buildings include: St Luke's hosptial; Godden Memorial Hospital, Lolowai; Lolowai Bay, chapel; ward interior. Activities include: digging septic tank; Archdeacon's house; bachelors house; teachers' houses; possibly boys' school; nurses feeding orphan babies; woman placing yam in food store. Also incudes: Patteson boat; Godden's cross; teacher training college. Prints taken by/received from: Possibly father Turvey; H Webster; J Dixon.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by Melanesian Mission and named photographers copyright in force.
scb_file_number 26
hierarchy_top_id_raw MM
hierarchy_sequence MM.0007.004.0026