Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Woodman, Hugh Mason
Dates of creation: 1938-1949
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Woodman, Hugh Mason
Language:
English
(1900 - 1989)
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| 1930-1931 | Medical Inspector, Makwar, Blue Nile Province |
| 1931-1935 | Medical Inspector, Singa, Blue Nile Province |
| 1935-1939 | Senior Medical Ispector, Li-Rangu, Equatoria Province |
| 1939-1944 | Senior Medical Inspector, Wadi Halfa, Northern Province |
| 1941 | British Army service |
| 1944-1946 | Senior Medical Inspector, Juba, Equatoria Province |
| 1946-1947 | Senior Medical Inspector, Li-Rangu, Equatoria Province |
| 1947-1950 | Province Medical Inspector and Medical Officer of Health, Juba, Equatoria Province |
| 1950 | Retired from Sudan service |
1. Official Papers
2. Diaries
3. Memoirs
4. Photographic Material
Presented by Woodman, 1981-1982, by T. B. H. Mynors, 1993 and Mrs. G. A. Selkirk, 1994
Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.721/2/1-9
1946
Li Rangu annual medical report, Zande District, Equatoria
SAD.721/2/10-18
1949
Equatoria Province annual medical report by H.M. Woodman
2. Diaries
SAD.777/1/1-53
1938 May 5 - 13
Diary of a journey by car from Yambio in Equatoria to Ituri in the Belgian Congo for the purpose of studying leprosy. In addition to descriptions of the terrain, vegetation and condition of the roads, H.M. Woodman describes stops at Niangara
(SAD.777/1/3-4); crossing the R. Bomokandi (SAD.777/1/5); visit to the Ibambi mission, including a meeting with the local chief (SAD.777/1/6-8); visit to Red Cross station at Parva (SAD.777/1/8); description of official housing and native housing at
Parva (SAD.777/1/8-10); lunch stop at Wamba (SAD.777/1/11); night at hotel at Nia Nia (SAD.777/1/13); visit to American mission at Mambasa (SAD.777/1/13-14); visit to family of pygmies (SAD.777/1/14); via Irumu to Bunia (SAD.777/1/14-15); stop at
Bambu with inspection of hospital there (SAD.777/1/16-24); via Arumbi to Watsa (SAD.777/1/24-27); inspection of hospital at Watsa and account of diseases treated there (SAD.777/1/28-30,32-33); list of doctors etc. who offered hospitality
(SAD.777/1/31); via Faradje to the elephant farm at Gangala na Bodio where he watched elephants at work (SAD.777/1/35-38); stop at Dungu (SAD.777/1/39); breakdown near Bangenze (SAD.777/1/39-40); visit to Putnam's camp in the Ituri forest (out of
date order, 777/1/41-43); visit to leper camp at Pawa (out of date order, 777/1/43-45). At back of notebook: List of supplies, (SAD.777/1/46); Sketch map of part of route (SAD.777/1/47); Note of mileages (SAD.777/1/48-51); Note of staff, rations and
diseases treated at Bambu hospital (SAD.777/1/51-53); List of expenses (SAD.777/1/54).
SAD.777/2/1-20
1943 Jun 26 - 1944 Jan 1
Diary of H.M. Woodman covering his secondment from the Sudan Medical Service to the R.A.M.C. Addis Ababa. Brief entries describing social life in and around Addis Ababa (SAD.777/2/2-3) and a trip through Kenya to Tanganyika. Includes descriptions
of his stay in Nairobi (SAD.777/2/3-4); journey by road to the Ngorongoro crater and the edge of the Serengeti (SAD.777/2/4-5); by ambulance to Moshi (SAD.777/2/6); a further stay in Nairobi (SAD.777/2/7-9); by car to Kiambu and a visit to various
farms at Oldeani (SAD.777/2/9-11); return journey via Rongai (SAD.777/2/11-12) to Addis Ababa (SAD.777/2/13-15); departure from Addis Ababa for Khartoum (SAD.777/2/16); trip to Halfa at Christmas (SAD.777/2/17). At the back of the notebook are
included: Addresses (SAD.777/2/18); Notes on Oldeani farms (SAD.777/2/19-20).
3. Memoirs
SAD.721/2/19-25
Memoirs of H.M. Woodman entitled
“The Southern Sudan as it was before the Civil War”. Includes details of the background history of the country, its population, communications and administration (SAD.721/2/19-20); Woodman's experience as a junior
Medical Inspector, 1930-1935, the British personnel, history of Li-Rangu as a leper colony, research into sleeping sickness, construction of housing and development of a farm at Li-Rangu (SAD.721/2/20-24)
SAD.721/2/26-31
Memoirs of H.M. Woodman entitled
“A senior doctor in the south”. Includes details of the use of steamers, such as the
Lady Baker to reach remote areas (SAD.721/2/26); the merging of the Bahr al-Ghazal and Mongalla
provinces (SAD.721/2/26); British personnel (SAD.721/2/27-29) and account of the medical casses encountered (SAD.721/2/29-31)
4. Photographic Material
(a) Southern Sudanese tribes SAD.718/11/1-2
Azande hunting with nets and spears
SAD.718/11/4
Avungura chief, Zande country
SAD.718/11/6
Tapotha man with spear; cattle in background
SAD.718/12/5-7
Beir tribesmen of Veveno River, Upper Nile Province
(b) Agriculture and vegetation in southern Sudan SAD.718/13/1
Removing ant hills, Li Rangu landing ground
SAD.718/13/2
Bongo Forest and salt lick
SAD.718/13/3-8
Southern rain grown cotton and ginnery
(c) British housing and personnel in southern Sudan SAD.718/14/1
Major W.G. Wyld and H.M. Woodman
SAD.718/14/3
Camp bed outside
tukl in Equatoria
SAD.718/14/4-5
Doctors' houses, S.W. Sudan
SAD.718/15/3
Panning for gold, E. Equatoria
SAD.718/15/4-5
Marks left by Gen. Marchand on tree trunk, S.W. Sudan 1897, when en route to the Nile
SAD.718/15/6
Village on the banks of the Bara River where it flows into Abyssinia
SAD.718/17/4
Kalar azar and hydatid disease
SAD.718/18/3
A sleeping sickness inspection
SAD.718/18/5-6
Von Reckeinshausen's disease
