TOO FEW DOCTORS
S. AFRICAN COMPLAINT CAPETOWN, July 20. Doctors are too few, too dear, and badly distributed in South Africa, said Dr. E. G. Drury in an address to the annual meeting of the South African Medical Congress at Port Elizabeth. Deducting 400 doctors engaged in Government health work, research and teaching at the two medical universities, Dr. Drury came to the conclusion that 2000 doctors arc treating people as general practitioners and specialists, which worked out at one practising doctor for 1000 patients. When the coloured and native population was added the, proportion became one doctor to 5000 patients. Capetown had a doctor for every 400 citizens of all colours, but by contrast Clanwilliam, in the Cape Province, had one doctor for 4000 Europeans and no hospital.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 8
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