Giving Up Career For Lepers
A brilliant woman doctor is giving up her career to tend lepers. Dr. Joan Lamplugh, of Moseley, Birmingham, is resigning her comfortable general practice to go to the mission hospital on Chilubi Island, Lake Bangwelo, Northern Rhodesia. She is going out because the woman doctor who is already carrying on the work had her right hand infected a short time ago and had to operate on it herself with out an anaesthetic. The hand, as a result, became crippled, and her work is now handicapped. Besides Dr. Lamplugh there will be five other white persons—the disabled woman whom she is to replace and four nuns. Only the present, doctor speaks English. And the work is a labour of love, for Dr. Lamplugh will get no salary. She will have to paddle in a boat from island to island to see her patients and to bring back to the hospital those who need extended treatment. She will have to diagnose their complaints, dispense their medicine and carry out operations. The nuns will be her nurses. Selected women from the African community will be the cooks and orderlies.
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Northern Advocate, 12 February 1940, Page 4
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