DEVOTED SERVICES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 70, 23 March 1934, Page 11

DEVOTED SERVICES

MISSIONARIES RETIRE

After 38 years' service together for the Church Missionary Society in Uganda, Sir Albert and Lady Cook will shortly retire, states an exchange. Sir Albert, who was knighted last year for his long and devoted services among the natives of the Protectorate of Uganda, is the highest authority on all medical matters in'that country. He and his wife will, however, spend their retirement in an old-world stone cottage, which they built for themselves on a hill near Namirembe, within sight of their life work, at the now famous Mengo Hospital. ■ „ ■■ It was in 1896 that the young Dr. Cook, having graduated from Cambridge and St. Bartholomew's Hospital with a party which included Miss Thompson, the'first nursing sister in E_ast Africa (now Lady Cook) walked 850 miles from Mombasa to Kampala. The journey and the early years. of pioneer work were full of adventure. Dr. Cook started work in what had been a smithy, and'his first operation was performed on a camp bedstead. He sterilised his instruments in a .saucepan. Prom such a beginning began tho most up-to-date hospital in Uganda.