Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900

A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa

The discovery of commercial quantities of gold in the former Transvaal of South Africa in 18961 came twenty years after the exploitation of diamonds in the northen Cape. Labour practices followed the existing migratory pattern for domestic and foreign labour in industry, a pattern which exists to this day. Gold miners, like diamond miners, were accommodated in compounds, often segregated by eth...

Major Thomas Alfred Perry Marsh

Major Thomas Alfred Perry Marsh, R.A.M.C., whose death was reported at Deelfontein Hospital on 22nd May, 1900, was the youngest son of the late Captain Henry Godfrey Marsh, J.P., of Winterbourne Park, Gloucestershire. He was born at Blackwood, Mon., on the 23rd February, 1856, and received his professional education at University College, Bristol, and St. George's Hospital, London, and he was a...

Universal Access to Surgical Care and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case for Surgical Systems Research; Comment on “Global Surgery – Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa”

National level experiences, lessons learnt from the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) era coupled with the academic evidence and proposals generated by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) together with the economic arguments and recommendations from the World Bank Group’s “Essential Surgery” Disease Control Priorities (DCP3) publication, provided the impetus for political commitment...

Early history of radiography in South Africa 1896-1900.

UV/H2O2/TiO2/Zeolite Hybrid System for Treatment of Molasses Wastewater

Wastewater from molasses processing contains a large amount of coloured substances that give a recalcitrant dark brown colour and high organic load to the effluent. Photocatalytic decolourization of molasses wastewater was performed using titanium dioxide catalyst coated on the surface of South African natural zeolite using the solid-solid dispersion method. Addition of hydrogen peroxide as...