The ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… land in Green Point, which was then in the outskirts of town. On 1 August 1818, the 'Hospital and Lunatic Asylum' … had to sell the hospital in 1821 at a loss, due to lack of funds, but remained its director. The hospital, which was … Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970) Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 5 …