Baragwanath Hospital's Depart-ment of Medicine was published in the SouthAfrican Medical
Joumal. 1 Baragwanath Hospital serves over 2 million" blacks" in Soweto, Johannesburg. It …

Dr. Phillip M. Smith, President of the National Medical Association, has asked that the
membership join him in protesting the proposed meeting of the World Medical Association …

Johnson's article (Can Med Assoc J 1984; 130: 1623-1624) contains a number of grossly
inaccurate and misleading statements concerning the South African legal system. The …

In 1856 Natal became a Colony distinct from the Cape of Good Hope of which it had hitherto
been a province-and often a troublesome one at that. The change was made on the …

Steve Biko was healthy and strong when he was detained by the South African security
police in August, 1977. Twenty-six days later the 30-year-old political leader died of …

Dr. H. Sauer, who had left his busy p:-actice in Kimberley to settle in Johannesburg, was an
outstanding personality of the time. Besides practising medicine, he took an active part in the …

Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg - the first twenty-one years Page 1 14 6 SA MEDICAL 10
R AL 23 August 1975 Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg THE FIRST TWENTY-ONE YEARS …

Abstract The choice of Cape Town as the site for the base hospitals during the Anglo-Boer
War was for many reasons a logical one. The hospitals that existed in the city at the time …

While the opening of the new hospital was acclaimed by all, it was beset from its inception
by many problems. Firstly, lack of funds prevented the purchase of some necessary …

The first disappointment came with the announcement that the Provinces must remain
responsible for hospitalisation, and that only co-ordination not control of the Health Services …