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From: "JCCI\\MAUREEN BRADY" <>
Subject: Fw: Royal Hospital, Cape Town. etc
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 06:56:35 +0200


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-----Original Message-----
From: JCCI\MAUREEN BRADY <>
To: <>
Date: 05 December 2000 08:57
Subject: Re: Royal Hospital, Cape Town. etc


>Hi Derek
>
>Thanks for the tips -- will follow up. I trained at Groote Schuur 1969-71 &
>I don't recall a Royal Hospital -- it may not still have been in existence
>then. The student nurses from all the Peninsula hospitals converged on
>Carinus College for theoretical training: GSH, Queen Victoria, Mowbray,
>Volks. There was also the old fever hospital, the Somerset, above what is
>today the V&A Waterfront. My mother did her midde at Peninsula Maternity in
>the old District Six. Besides 2 Military in Wynberg, where I was in
1977-78,
>I can't think of any other CT hospitals, except the Red Cross Children's &
>the Carel Bremmer -- latter was/is linked to Stellenbosch University.
>There's a possibility the Royal Hospital had something to do with
>Falkenberg -- I don't think the whole of it used to be a mental
institution,
>or whatever the PC term for such places is now!
>
>I remember Prof Jannie Louw -- he was the senior doctor on the first ward I
>worked on.
>
>Good luck with your move.
>Regards
>Maureen
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Derek Pratt <>
>To: <>
>Date: 05 December 2000 07:44
>Subject: Re: Royal Hospital, Cape Town. etc
>
>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: JCCI\MAUREEN BRADY <>
>>To: <>
>>Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 3:23 PM
>>Subject: Royal Hospital, Cape Town. etc
>>
>>
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where the Royal Hospital was in Cape Town, middish
>1800s?
>>>
>>
>>Dear Maureen,
>>I have Prof Jannie Louw's history of UCT Medical School but I'm busy
>>cataloging and packing them before moving to another parish. I'm afraid
>that
>>that books gone into its box already! I'm pretty sure that he would
>mention
>>all the Hospitals in CT. Books published by Struik in the 1960's. I must
>>admit that I have never heard of it so would like to know more about it.
>>
>>> Also, if someone stated in 1875 that he was "an enrolled chemist of this
>>> colony" [Cape], where would one begin to look for records of such
>>enrolment?
>>>
>>Interesting question. I had to look for a registered doctor but had great
>>trouble. Perhaps the SA Medical and Dental Council could help. I think
>>they have a new name in the New SA
>>Regards
>>Derek Pratt
>
>
>>> And finally, does anyone know whether British regiments in the 1800s
each
>>> had their own medical corps or was there some kind of centralised army
>>> medical service? After all, in most engagements, several regiments took
>to
>>> the field at a time.
>>>
>
>

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