Record-keeping, Green Memorial Hospital, Manipay, Sri Lanka.

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Some documents at The Green Memorial Hospital, Manipay, Sri Lanka.

Text books used by the Medical Students at Manipay, Jaffna in the 1850s onwards.

A page from a Text-book of Chemistry with its Tamil translation below.

A Tamil translation of a text-book of Anatomy. 

A Tamil translation of a text-book of Surgery.

Preface to a translation in Tamil of the 'Vadae maecum' - a ready reference.

In an effort to stem the brain-drain of his medical students, Dr. Green started teaching Western Medicine in Tamil. He translated the English text-books into Tamil and taught the students in Tamil. This was in the latter part of the 1860's.

Green Memorial Hospital, Manipay, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Samuel Fisk Green from, Boston, USA.

An older building.

An old building in ruins.

The Centenery Building.

The Rt Hon. Mr. D S Senanayake, Prime Minister, Ceylon.

The Hon Mr. George E de Silva, Minister of Health.

Beads and coins, antiques, Manipay, Sri Lanka.

Bead rings.

Different types of 'Rudraksha' seeds.

Ancient coins.

Antiques, Manipay, Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Brass oil lamp still in use in the 1950s.

Ola leaf books - 'Eadhu' T, 'Pus Kola' S.

A decorated porcelain pot.

Brass Drinking vessells - 'Mookkupperny' T

Scenes around Manipay, Sri Lanka.

Street scene, Manipay.

A cow has the 'right of way'.

Street scene.

Street scene.

Fruit processing facility, Manipay, Sri Lanka.

Stainless steel container to steam heat fruit slices.

Boiler to produce steam under pressure.

Fruit mincer - steam heated.

I went to visit this fruit processing facility in Manipay. The plentiful supply of fruits in the Jaffna Peninsula had prompted the opening of a fruit-processing facility in 1956. Now it is equipped with uptodate stainless steel machinery. The factory owners were awaiting inspection for ISO certification on the day I visited this site in December 2012.

Manipay to Puththur via Kopay, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Road to Kopay from Manipay

Banana plantation

Somaskanda College, Puththur

The area covered is famous for its red fertile soil. Careful nurturing of the soil with water drawn from underground cisterns has built a thriving agricultural community here. Organic farming with harvested leaves buried under the soil and using cow-dung as manure was the way of life till urea and allied artificial fertilizer came on the scene.

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