[The sanitary situation on board the vessels of the "VOC", at the Cape of Good Hope and in Batavia between 1750 and 1800].
During the second half of the eighteenth century the Dutch East India Company got more and more worried about the worsening sanitary situation aboard its vessels, at the Cape of Good Hope and in Batavia. Several plans were submitted to the directors of the company, aiming at the improvement of this situation. In 1768, J.C.M. Radermacher, a member of the Council of India, proposed the construction of a new hospital at the Cape of Good Hope (based on the building plan of the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, as well as the improvement of the European hospitals in Batavia, the Buiten-Hospitaal. Nevertheless, the sanitary situation soon worsened again, as a consequence of the impoverishment of the Company.
van Heiningen
Teunis Willem
TW
heinluit@hetnet.nl
D049671:History, 18th Century; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000266:history; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D009426:Netherlands; D012499:Sanitation / Q000266:history*; D012767:Ships / Q000266:history*; D013019:South Africa