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Name: MADGWICK, George Alexander Sheridan (Dr.)
Birth Date: 4 Nov 1892 Antigua, Queensland, Australia
Death Date: 11 Oct 1954 Johannesburg, South Africa
First Date: 1922
Profession: Missionary doctor, Seventh Day Adventist Mission. In charge of Mission Hospital, Kisumu
Area: Gendia near Kendu Bay, Kisii
Married: In Romford 1919 Evangeline Vera Cope b. 11 Aug 1897, d. 29 Apr 1973 Johannesburg
Children: Lorna Muriel (1927)
Book Reference: Alex Mascarenhas, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22
General Information:
An American at Gendia Mission of the Seventh Day Adventists. People from all over the District went over to him for treatment of their ailments. He was a real missionary and a very charitable man. He greatly extended the Hospital there. He was a very capable doctor.
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Nyanza Voters List
Both buried in South Africa (eGGSA Library - web)
https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=DJAN In 1920, Dr. G. A. S. Madgwick was sent over to Kanyadoto. He had only recently taken an additional course in tropical medicine in London, and when he came, he stayed briefly at Gendia before moving to Kanyadoto. He became known to the Luo as “Bwana Majwek.”
Dr. Madgwick worked under very difficult conditions. He had to his surgical instruments in kerosene tins on an open fire. He performed surgeries on a kitchen table inside a mud hut with a grass-thatched roof. However, his surgeries were always successful. In all the time he performed his surgeries (1921-1924), there were no infections from the poor operating environment or casualties from it. He even conducted surgeries on Europeans under the same conditions. As in most places in Africa, child mortality was a big problem. Under Dr. Madgwick, babies born in the facility had a much better chance of survival.Indeed, even Alfred Matter’s son named Alfred, was born in that facility.
The decision to move the medical work to Gendia was not received well by the residents of Kanyadoto. Dr. Madgwick left for England on furlough in 1924 and, in July that year, work began at Kendu to build a new hospital. When he returned in January 1925, the facility was nearly ready for use.In January 1925, he moved to Kendu and began working in the yet-to-be completed facility. Medical work ceased at Kanyadoto, but the mission continued.
Dr. Madgwick worked under very difficult conditions. He had to his surgical instruments in kerosene tins on an open fire. He performed surgeries on a kitchen table inside a mud hut with a grass-thatched roof. However, his surgeries were always successful. In all the time he performed his surgeries (1921-1924), there were no infections from the poor operating environment or casualties from it. He even conducted surgeries on Europeans under the same conditions. As in most places in Africa, child mortality was a big problem. Under Dr. Madgwick, babies born in the facility had a much better chance of survival.Indeed, even Alfred Matter’s son named Alfred, was born in that facility.
The decision to move the medical work to Gendia was not received well by the residents of Kanyadoto. Dr. Madgwick left for England on furlough in 1924 and, in July that year, work began at Kendu to build a new hospital. When he returned in January 1925, the facility was nearly ready for use.In January 1925, he moved to Kendu and began working in the yet-to-be completed facility. Medical work ceased at Kanyadoto, but the mission continued.