ABSTRACT
East Africa also provides the focus of the source concerning nursing sisters in Uganda. e issue examined here is that of the terms of employment and role of colonial nurses recruited in Britain through the Colonial Nursing Association (CNA). e CNA was formed in 1896 with the aim of providing nurses to care for British expatriates in what were regarded as ‘primitive’ locations. Although the Colonial O ce, particularly under Joseph Chamberlain, paid an interest in the activities of the CNA, it retained its independence and was funded privately through voluntary contributors. In e ect, the CNA, which in 1919 became
the Overseas Nursing Association, acted as a recruitment agency for the Colonial O ce and sent around 8,500 nurses overseas before its eventual closure in 1966.10 is source provides an example of the debates around the disadvantageous terms of recruitment and employment of nurses in Uganda, however, in principle it stresses the similarity of conditions in the whole of East Africa.
