title: History of the mental health services in South Africa. Part V. Natal.
abstract: The early history of psychiatry in Natal is the history of Town Hill Hospital. A second hospital was opened at Fort Napier in 1927. They have, for clinical purposes, now been placed under the control of the Professor of Psychiatry at the medical school of Natal University, and it is planned to merge them into a single hospital.
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