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Title:The Local State and Public Health Reform in South Africa: Bloemfontein and the Consequences of the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918
Author:Phillips, HowardISNI
Year:1987
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:13
Issue:2
Period:January
Pages:210-233
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:epidemics
public health
Politics and Government
Health and Nutrition
History and Exploration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636858
Abstract:This study elucidates the origins of the earliest comprehensive attempt at disease prevention among whites to be undertaken by a South African municipality, that initiated by Bloemfontein in the wake of the devastating Spanish 'flu epidemic which swept through the country in 1918. In responding in this way Bloemfontein was not alone in the Union. Its distinction, however, lies in the extent of the measures it introduced and in the emphasis these placed on preventive rather than curative medicine. Notes, ref.
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