MENGO HOSPITAL

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 14917).

Synopsis

Amateur film. Run by the Church Missionary Society. Nurses going up to the cathedral (in colour). Cooking. Vaccinating boys of the school at Budo; Canon Grace; Dr and Mrs Schofield at the village maternity centre. Church Missionary society's leper colony at Kumi, Mount Elgon, Uganda; children's colony with school. Miss Kent giving out food and making children rub each other with healing oil. The adults' colony. (People of Borundi: section misplaced from RUANDA). Plague of locusts devastate the maize crop.

 

Titles

  • MENGO HOSPITAL
 

Technical Data

Year:
1930
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm Film
Colour:
Colour and Black/White
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
350 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
Great Britain
Photography
SCHOFIELD, Dr.
 

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