Dated 1928. Photographer Dr. Alexander H. Kemp. Patients supplied their own bedding and nursing. In the minutes of the 1925-1926 Angola Mission Conferences, Dr. Kemp wrote: “Our plans for a new hospital plant have materialized, and with a few finishing touches, we will have a well-constructed main building of three rooms and veranda and twelve two-bed houses for our patients….With the completion of eight more small units for our hospital this coming dry season I hope to be able to turn all of my time and energy into more strictly medical missionary work….For the past 14 months…an average of 1000 treatments per month have been given, these including 120 operations under chloroform, 500 injections of anti-bubonic plague vaccine and the same number of intravenous injections. Just a year ago, an outbreak of bubonic plague occurred on the mission grounds which I was fortunate enough to get diagnosed early, and on reporting it to the government medical delegates in Malange, measures were at once instituted, which quickly ended the epidemic with a loss of sixteen persons. My relations with the government doctors began at that time, and have been pleasantly continued. Incidentally, my activities as a medical missionary in this colony without a license from Portugal depends upon my retaining the goodwill of my Portuguese colleagues, and as long as my work does not decrease their revenue, I think that the present status can be expected to be continued indefinitely, satisfactory to all parties concerned.” 99108