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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, Howard |
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. |