H. M. Woodman
Introduction
Hugh Mason Woodman
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
2. Diaries
3. Memoirs
4. Photographic Material
(a) Southern Sudanese tribes
(b) Agriculture and vegetation in southern Sudan
(c) British housing and personnel in southern Sudan
(d) Tribal industry
(e) Rural scenes
(f) Medical
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: H. M. Woodman
Dates of creation: ca.1938-1950
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: H. M. Woodman
Language: English

Hugh Mason Woodman

(ca.1900-1989)

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


Arrangement

1. Official Papers
2. Diaries
3. Memoirs
4. Photographic Material

Accession details

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.W.
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.W. describes stops at Niangara (777/1/3-4); crossing the R. Bomokandi (777/1/5); visit to the Ibambi mission, including a meeting with the local chief (777/1/6-8); visit to Red Cross station at Parva (777/1/8); description of official housing and native housing at Parva (777/1/8-10); lunch stop at Wamba (777/1/11); night at hotel at Nia Nia (777/1/13); visit to American mission at Mambasa (777/1/13-14); visit to family of pygmies (777/1/14); via Irumu to Bunia (777/1/14-15); stop at Bambu with inspection of hospital there (777/1/16-24); via Arumbi to Watsa (777/1/24-27); inspection of hospital at Watsa and account of diseases treated there (777/1/28-30,32-33); list of doctors etc. who offered hospitality (777/1/31); via Faradje to the elephant farm at Gangala na Bodio where he watched elephants at work (777/1/35-38); stop at Dungu (777/1/39); breakdown near Bangenze (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:
SAD.777/1/46
List of supplies
SAD.777/1/47
Sketch map of part of route
SAD.777/1/48-51
Note of mileages
SAD.777/1/51-53
Note of staff, rations and diseases treated at Bambu hospital
SAD.777/1/54
List of expenses
SAD.777/2/1-20
1943 Jun 26 - 1944 Jan 1
Diary of H.M.W. 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 (777/2/2-3) and a trip through Kenya to Tanganyika. Includes descriptions of his stay in Nairobi (777/2/3-4); journey by road to the Ngorongoro crater and the edge of the Serengeti (777/2/4-5); by ambulance to Moshi (777/2/6); a further stay in Nairobi (777/2/7-9); by car to Kiambu and a visit to various farms at Oldeani (777/2/9-11); return journey via Rongai (777/2/11-12) to Addis Ababa (777/2/13-15); departure from Addis Ababa for Khartoum (777/2/16); trip to Halfa at Christmas (777/2/17). At the back of the notebook are included:
SAD.777/2/18
Addresses
SAD.777/2/19-20
Notes on Oldeani farms
3. Memoirs
SAD.721/2/19-25
Memoirs of H.M.W. 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 (721/2/19-20); H.M.W.'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 (721/2/20-24)
SAD.721/2/26-31
Memoirs of H.M.W. entitled 'A senior doctor in the south'. Includes details of the use of steamers, such as the Lady Baker to reach remote areas (721/2/26); the merging of the Bahr al-Ghazal and Mongalla provinces (721/2/26); British personnel (721/2/27-29) and account of the medical casses encountered (721/2/29-31)
4. Photographic Material
(a) Southern Sudanese tribes
SAD.718/11/1-2
Azande hunting with nets and spears
SAD.718/11/3
Bomba women, Kichepo
SAD.718/11/4
Avungura chief, Zande country
SAD.718/11/5
Young Latuka men
SAD.718/11/6
Tapotha man with spear; cattle in background
SAD.718/12/1-2
Graves, Moro tribe
SAD.718/12/4
Azande grave
SAD.718/12/4
Anuak boys
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.W.
SAD.718/14/2
Li Rangu swimming bath
SAD.718/14/3
Camp bed outside tukl in Equatoria
SAD.718/14/4-5
Doctors' houses, S.W. Sudan
(d) Tribal industry
SAD.718/15/1-2
Tile making, Li Rangu
SAD.718/15/3
Panning for gold, E. Equatoria
(e) Rural scenes
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
(f) Medical
SAD.718/16/1
Kalar azar
SAD.718/16/2-3
Femoral hernia
SAD.718/16/4
Hydatid cyst
SAD.718/16/5-7
Lymphoma of face
SAD.718/17/1-3
Leprosy
SAD.718/17/4
Kalar azar and hydatid disease
SAD.718/17/5-7
Elephantiasis
SAD.718/18/1-2
Goitre
SAD.718/18/3
A sleeping sickness inspection
SAD.718/18/4
Leopard mauling
SAD.718/18/5-6
Von Reckeinshausen's disease
SAD.718/18/7
Hare lip