The City Hospital for Infectious Diseases--conception and first years.
Cape Town had no proper facilities for dealing with infectious disease when, in 1894, Dr Barney Fuller, city MOH, began a 6-year flight to establish the City Hospital for Infectious Diseases. The project was delayed, first by disputes between the city and the Colonial Government about paying for it, and then by the outbreak of the South African War. As a result, the hospital when built in 1900 was taken over by the military, and was only developed for its proper purpose by Dr Jasper Anderson in 1902.
D003141:Communicable Diseases; D006666:History of Medicine; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D013019:South Africa