{UAH} Dr. Albert Ruskin Cook at his residence on Mengo Hill, Kyaddondo, on 27 March 1897.
1.Flash-back in 1924: Sir Dr. Albert Ruskin Cook and his wife Lady Kate Timpson Cook, volunteering to treat critically sick patients, delivered to the old Mengo Hospital, near the Kabaka's Lubiri (palace)
2.Dr. Albert Ruskin Cook at his residence on Mengo Hill, Kyaddondo, on 27 March 1897.
In February 1897, Dr. Albert Cook and wife and his Lady Kate Timpson Cook (Nursing Sister) arrived in Kibuga, Mengo. They went to Buganda Kingdom as one of the the Church Missionary Society missionaries from Britain, who were formally invited by Kabaka Muteesa I, in his letter of 24 March 1875, which was delivered to London, England, by Sir Henry Morton Stanley, and was published in the London Daily Telegraph newspaper on 15 November 1875. It was Kabaka Mutesa's letter, which led to the coming of British CMS missionaries to Buganda..
From England, the cooks sailed for two months before their ship docked at the Mombasa port. After resting for a period of two-months at Mombasa coast, they got a caravan and 500 persons to transport their luggage and medical supplies - they walked from Mombasa up-to Kampala. According to Hamu Mukasa (1899), three days later after arriving at the Kabaka's court, Dr. Cook started treating the sick native patients.
Dr. Cook carried out his first medical work under a tree, which he used as a clinic to seeing up to 60 patients daily, and used their camp bed as an operating table. In his own record, Dr. Cook was the first person to use introduce the use of chloroform anaesthesia in Buganda and noted its effects to the sick natives, he operated. He noted how a patient blind with corneal scarring was made to see again by a simple optical iridectomy and how the recovered happy patient called me his life saviour.
Three months after his arrival in Buganda, Dr. Cook set up his hospital in a grass-thatched, reed-walled structure, with 12 wooden beds and straw for mattresses. He named it Mengo Hospital after the Kabaka's Royal Palace nearby, although today it is known as Namirembe Hospital, named after Namirembe hill, Kyaddondo.
In 1899, Dr. Cook was joined by his elder brother, John Howard Cook, also a medical doctor.John Cook became a second doctor at Mengo.
In 1902, Dr Cook's first grass-thatched Hospital structure at Mengo was accidentally burnt down by lightening. But he immediately built an even larger one with double number of bed.
In 1904, Two years later, he expanded the health facility to 40 beds.
In 1901, on a one month leave to London, Dr Cook published a thesis on Malaria fever, before getting his masters degree.
In 1907, Earnest Cook, the nephew, brought and installed the first X-ray machine in Uganda.
In 1910, Mengo got electrificated or had electricity
In 1913, the people of Buganda Kingdom provided Albert Ruskin Cook with lands on Mulago hill, Kyaddondo where he established a medical treatment centre for venereal diseases and sleeping sickness. The facility later became known as Mulago Hospital, the largest referral hospital in Uganda. Mulago hill, is where King Ssuna II established his palace and Kibuga (capital) - the areas was named Mulago after the Luganda word (o)mulago, meaning a traditional herbal medicine among the ancient Baganda culture - the herbal grass, Mulago, used to grow from that hill, and was used by the Ganda people, during the reign of Ssekabaka Suuna II (King of Buganda from 1832-1856) for protection against mental and psychological illness attributable to evil spirits.
In 1914, Dr. Albert Cook became president of the Uganda Branch of the British Medical Association (BMA)
In 1918, established a school for native African medical assistants
In 1920, John Howard Cook returned to England for family reasons. Dr Albert Cook would work as a physician, surgeon, pathologist, dentist and obstetrician and gyneocologist. According to Billington, Dr. Cook's hospitable and kind behaviour made him a darling to the Baganda natives.
In 1920, Dr. Cook opened up a medical college in Kampala.
In 1921, Mrs Kate Cook set up the Lady Coryndon Maternity Training School in the Kampala area
On 19 November 1924, Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II KBE, the King of Buganda Kingdom was born at the house of Sir Albert Cook in Makindye, Kampala.
In 1934, Dr Cook retired, and acquired a string of awards and honours. Sir Albert Ruskin Cook was knighted with an Order of the British Empire (OBE), an Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG), a King Leopold Medal, a Silver Medal of the Royal African Society, top honours of the British Medical Association and Knighthood.
Dr Cook and his wife opened a school for midwives at Mengo and authored a manual of midwifery in Ganda, the local language, titled Amagezi Agokuzalisa, published by Sheldon Press. His wife Lady Katharine, was a matron of Mengo Hospital between 1897-1911, the general superintendent of midwives and inspector of medical centres.
In 1938, Lady Katherine Cook died and was buried in Buganda.
In 1951, Sir Albert Cook died and was buried in Buganda.
References and further reading:
★Albert R. Cook, Uganda Memories (1897-1940)
★The memoirs of Hamu Mukasa and his generation (1899)
★W. R. Billington Albert Cook 1870-1951: Uganda pioneer
★Stock, E. (1899). History of the Church Missionary Society, London, Church Missionary Society.
★Cook, A. R. (1901). Malarial Fever, as met with in the Great Lake Region of Central Africa. M.D. Thesis, London.
★Cook, A. R. (1904). Journal of Tropical Medicine, 7, 24.
★Moffat, J.S (1905). "The Uganda Mission," Uganda Notes
★Cook, J. H. (1901). Journal of Tropical Medicine, 4, 236.
★Lambkin,F.J (1908). "An Outbreak of Syphilis on Virgin Soil," in A System of Syphilis" (London: Oxford University Press
★Minutes, December 9, 1908, "Medical Subconference Meeting Minutes," 1908-1925 (A.R. Cook Secretary), ACML. The Medical subconference was comprised of Rev. J Roscoe, and doctors Albert Cook, Jack Cook, and
Bond.
★Stanley, R (1907). "How the natives of the British East Africa and Uganda protectorate are medically provided for during the early stages of the openings of these countries" Journal of the Royal Medical Corps, Vol.7
★ HodgesA.D.P (1909). "the Annual Medical Report 1908: Sleeping Sickness in the Uganda Protectorate during 1908." Entebbe: Government Printer
★J.H. Cook Okufa Okwabana Mu Buganda Bwekuli trans. Robinson Kisaka (1908), ACML
★"C.M.S. Medical Hospital" Uganda Herald, December 19, 1913.
★Opening of the Lady Coryndon Maternity Training School," The Uganda Herald, June 17, 1921.
★. Cook,A.R (1921). "A medical vocabulary and phrase book in Luganda."Kampala, Uganda: Uganda Book Shop.
★Cheyne, W.W. and Burghard, F.F. (1912). "A Manual of Surgical Treatment" London: Longmans, Green and Co., Vol. I
★Mengo Hospital In-Patient case notes, 1915, Albert Cook Library
Albert R. Cook (1923)."Amagezi agokuzalisa." London: Sheldon Press
★A.R. Cook, The Treatment of Ante-Natal Syphilis in Buganda Women, delivered to the UBBMA on March 22, 1929
★Apollo Kagwa, Ernest B.E.M. Kalibala & John Roscoe (1934). "The Customs of the Baganda." New York: Columbia University Press
★Aba-Malaki," Ebifa mu Buganda, trans. Robinson Kisaka August 1929; ★Cook,A.R. (1945) Uganda Memories, 1897-1940 (Kampala: The Uganda Society, 1945),
★Ernest Balintuma Kalibala (1946) "The Social Structure of the Baganda Tribe of East Africa" (PhD diss., Harvard University,
★Jubilee Book of Mengo Hospital (1947)
★Billington, W. R. (1951). "East African Medical Journal" Vol.28
★Davies,J.N.P (1956). "The History of Syphilis in Uganda," Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
★Joyce Reason (1957). "Safety Last: The Story of Albert Cook of Uganda"
★Foster WD (1968). "Doctor Albert Cook and the early days of the church missionary society's medical mission to Uganda."
★Foster, W. D. (1970). "The Early History of Scientific Medicine in Uganda."Kampala: East African Literature Bureau.
★William D. Foster (1978). "The Early History of Scientific Medicine in Uganda"
★John Orley (1980). "Indigenous Concepts of Disease and their Interactions with Scientific Medicine," in Health in Tropical Africa". Oxford: OUP
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-- 2.Dr. Albert Ruskin Cook at his residence on Mengo Hill, Kyaddondo, on 27 March 1897.
In February 1897, Dr. Albert Cook and wife and his Lady Kate Timpson Cook (Nursing Sister) arrived in Kibuga, Mengo. They went to Buganda Kingdom as one of the the Church Missionary Society missionaries from Britain, who were formally invited by Kabaka Muteesa I, in his letter of 24 March 1875, which was delivered to London, England, by Sir Henry Morton Stanley, and was published in the London Daily Telegraph newspaper on 15 November 1875. It was Kabaka Mutesa's letter, which led to the coming of British CMS missionaries to Buganda..
From England, the cooks sailed for two months before their ship docked at the Mombasa port. After resting for a period of two-months at Mombasa coast, they got a caravan and 500 persons to transport their luggage and medical supplies - they walked from Mombasa up-to Kampala. According to Hamu Mukasa (1899), three days later after arriving at the Kabaka's court, Dr. Cook started treating the sick native patients.
Dr. Cook carried out his first medical work under a tree, which he used as a clinic to seeing up to 60 patients daily, and used their camp bed as an operating table. In his own record, Dr. Cook was the first person to use introduce the use of chloroform anaesthesia in Buganda and noted its effects to the sick natives, he operated. He noted how a patient blind with corneal scarring was made to see again by a simple optical iridectomy and how the recovered happy patient called me his life saviour.
Three months after his arrival in Buganda, Dr. Cook set up his hospital in a grass-thatched, reed-walled structure, with 12 wooden beds and straw for mattresses. He named it Mengo Hospital after the Kabaka's Royal Palace nearby, although today it is known as Namirembe Hospital, named after Namirembe hill, Kyaddondo.
In 1899, Dr. Cook was joined by his elder brother, John Howard Cook, also a medical doctor.John Cook became a second doctor at Mengo.
In 1902, Dr Cook's first grass-thatched Hospital structure at Mengo was accidentally burnt down by lightening. But he immediately built an even larger one with double number of bed.
In 1904, Two years later, he expanded the health facility to 40 beds.
In 1901, on a one month leave to London, Dr Cook published a thesis on Malaria fever, before getting his masters degree.
In 1907, Earnest Cook, the nephew, brought and installed the first X-ray machine in Uganda.
In 1910, Mengo got electrificated or had electricity
In 1913, the people of Buganda Kingdom provided Albert Ruskin Cook with lands on Mulago hill, Kyaddondo where he established a medical treatment centre for venereal diseases and sleeping sickness. The facility later became known as Mulago Hospital, the largest referral hospital in Uganda. Mulago hill, is where King Ssuna II established his palace and Kibuga (capital) - the areas was named Mulago after the Luganda word (o)mulago, meaning a traditional herbal medicine among the ancient Baganda culture - the herbal grass, Mulago, used to grow from that hill, and was used by the Ganda people, during the reign of Ssekabaka Suuna II (King of Buganda from 1832-1856) for protection against mental and psychological illness attributable to evil spirits.
In 1914, Dr. Albert Cook became president of the Uganda Branch of the British Medical Association (BMA)
In 1918, established a school for native African medical assistants
In 1920, John Howard Cook returned to England for family reasons. Dr Albert Cook would work as a physician, surgeon, pathologist, dentist and obstetrician and gyneocologist. According to Billington, Dr. Cook's hospitable and kind behaviour made him a darling to the Baganda natives.
In 1920, Dr. Cook opened up a medical college in Kampala.
In 1921, Mrs Kate Cook set up the Lady Coryndon Maternity Training School in the Kampala area
On 19 November 1924, Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II KBE, the King of Buganda Kingdom was born at the house of Sir Albert Cook in Makindye, Kampala.
In 1934, Dr Cook retired, and acquired a string of awards and honours. Sir Albert Ruskin Cook was knighted with an Order of the British Empire (OBE), an Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG), a King Leopold Medal, a Silver Medal of the Royal African Society, top honours of the British Medical Association and Knighthood.
Dr Cook and his wife opened a school for midwives at Mengo and authored a manual of midwifery in Ganda, the local language, titled Amagezi Agokuzalisa, published by Sheldon Press. His wife Lady Katharine, was a matron of Mengo Hospital between 1897-1911, the general superintendent of midwives and inspector of medical centres.
In 1938, Lady Katherine Cook died and was buried in Buganda.
In 1951, Sir Albert Cook died and was buried in Buganda.
References and further reading:
★Albert R. Cook, Uganda Memories (1897-1940)
★The memoirs of Hamu Mukasa and his generation (1899)
★W. R. Billington Albert Cook 1870-1951: Uganda pioneer
★Stock, E. (1899). History of the Church Missionary Society, London, Church Missionary Society.
★Cook, A. R. (1901). Malarial Fever, as met with in the Great Lake Region of Central Africa. M.D. Thesis, London.
★Cook, A. R. (1904). Journal of Tropical Medicine, 7, 24.
★Moffat, J.S (1905). "The Uganda Mission," Uganda Notes
★Cook, J. H. (1901). Journal of Tropical Medicine, 4, 236.
★Lambkin,F.J (1908). "An Outbreak of Syphilis on Virgin Soil," in A System of Syphilis" (London: Oxford University Press
★Minutes, December 9, 1908, "Medical Subconference Meeting Minutes," 1908-1925 (A.R. Cook Secretary), ACML. The Medical subconference was comprised of Rev. J Roscoe, and doctors Albert Cook, Jack Cook, and
Bond.
★Stanley, R (1907). "How the natives of the British East Africa and Uganda protectorate are medically provided for during the early stages of the openings of these countries" Journal of the Royal Medical Corps, Vol.7
★ HodgesA.D.P (1909). "the Annual Medical Report 1908: Sleeping Sickness in the Uganda Protectorate during 1908." Entebbe: Government Printer
★J.H. Cook Okufa Okwabana Mu Buganda Bwekuli trans. Robinson Kisaka (1908), ACML
★"C.M.S. Medical Hospital" Uganda Herald, December 19, 1913.
★Opening of the Lady Coryndon Maternity Training School," The Uganda Herald, June 17, 1921.
★. Cook,A.R (1921). "A medical vocabulary and phrase book in Luganda."Kampala, Uganda: Uganda Book Shop.
★Cheyne, W.W. and Burghard, F.F. (1912). "A Manual of Surgical Treatment" London: Longmans, Green and Co., Vol. I
★Mengo Hospital In-Patient case notes, 1915, Albert Cook Library
Albert R. Cook (1923)."Amagezi agokuzalisa." London: Sheldon Press
★A.R. Cook, The Treatment of Ante-Natal Syphilis in Buganda Women, delivered to the UBBMA on March 22, 1929
★Apollo Kagwa, Ernest B.E.M. Kalibala & John Roscoe (1934). "The Customs of the Baganda." New York: Columbia University Press
★Aba-Malaki," Ebifa mu Buganda, trans. Robinson Kisaka August 1929; ★Cook,A.R. (1945) Uganda Memories, 1897-1940 (Kampala: The Uganda Society, 1945),
★Ernest Balintuma Kalibala (1946) "The Social Structure of the Baganda Tribe of East Africa" (PhD diss., Harvard University,
★Jubilee Book of Mengo Hospital (1947)
★Billington, W. R. (1951). "East African Medical Journal" Vol.28
★Davies,J.N.P (1956). "The History of Syphilis in Uganda," Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
★Joyce Reason (1957). "Safety Last: The Story of Albert Cook of Uganda"
★Foster WD (1968). "Doctor Albert Cook and the early days of the church missionary society's medical mission to Uganda."
★Foster, W. D. (1970). "The Early History of Scientific Medicine in Uganda."Kampala: East African Literature Bureau.
★William D. Foster (1978). "The Early History of Scientific Medicine in Uganda"
★John Orley (1980). "Indigenous Concepts of Disease and their Interactions with Scientific Medicine," in Health in Tropical Africa". Oxford: OUP
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