The ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, as well as a naval hospital in Simonstown. So, in order to set up the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, a doctor, Samuel Silverthorne Bailey approached … (eds)(1970) Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 5 …