Here's something on the question of colonial and mission medical co-operation, from the point of view of colonial medical adminstration, 1938. Nota bene, missions trained a lot of African staff, and colonial Government trained 'tribal dressers' but not medical doctors, or professional nurses.
"Coopertion between medical missions and native administration is in a different category. There is no doubt that missions, if subsidiezd by native administation, could produce, so far as immediate results are concerned, a better medical organization than existes in many places at present. .. In this connexion, however, it must be borne in mind that the function of the tribal medical organisation is not merely to treat and control diseases as they arise but that it is the embryo from which a tribal medical service with responsibilities of its own should develop."
