by Christine Nicholls | Jun 20, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
What caused young men to join the exodus from Britain to East Africa in 1910-1912? Let us take one example and look at his memoir. Brian Havelock Potts, born in Brixton on 30 March 1891 as a fourth child and only son, came from a middle-class family. His father...
by Christine Nicholls | May 19, 2016 | Christine Nicholls, Uncategorized
For the last two months I have been talking about the founding of the Scott Sanatorium, and the part Violet Donkin played in this. However, a year after the facility opened, she departed for England. Why? A scrutiny of the surviving manuscripts gives us a clue. We...
by Christine Nicholls | May 9, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
On Call in Africa in War and Peace, 1910-1932 by Norman Parsons Jewell Norman Jewell’s memoir gives us the best eyewitness account of medical conditions among the troops fighting in East Africa that has been published so far. It is a riveting story of...
by Christine Nicholls | Apr 21, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
Violet Donkin and the Scott Sanatorium Last month we read about the establishment of the Scott Sanatorium outside Nairobi under the leadership of the nurse and midwife (Frances) Violet Donkin. Who was she? I mentioned her in my blog of 9 May 2012, but gave few...
by Christine Nicholls | Mar 20, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
The Scott Sanatorium In 1912 it was felt that there was a need for a sanatorium in Nairobi for white settlers, and the idea for the Scott Sanatorium took root. What was the origin of its name? It was named for the Rev. Henry Edwin Scott, LRCP and SE, a medical...
by Christine Nicholls | Feb 22, 2016 | Christine Nicholls
An Eccentric East African Hotelier If you crossed the Kenya border into Uganda in the 1940s you came across a rather dilapidated building with a faded tin roof, half a mile from the border, at Tororo. On a board it announced itself as a bar: ‘Prop.: H.H....
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