South Africa: Hospital Histories - 151 Years Later, the Drumming of Little Feet At Brooklyn Chest Hospital allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In 1984, the then head of Brooklyn Chest TB Hospital, Dr David Jenkin, lamented inadequate services for TB patients, writing that ‘it is unflattering to realise that only war and pestilence appear able to bring more beds for TB sufferers’. Almost 40 years later, despite major scientific advance.