A HOSPITAL CENTURY. Grey`s Hospital Pietermaritzburg 1855-1955 by Alan F. Hattersley. (W)

Hard cover with jacket. Published in 195 by A.A. Balkema-Cape Town-Amsterdam, 129 pages.
Maroon linen boards with gilt lettering to spine. B/w photographs. Very good condition. Jacket shelf stained, chaffed at the corners and spine ends.
This is the story of the first South African hospital to have completed 100 years on its original site.
The author was an eminent historian and this book links the times around publication with the remote days of settler Natal. Anecdotes of famous men, not forgetting the humble colonist. Heroic nurses and doctors who fought cholera, malaria and small pox.
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