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318: 306: 330: 342: 27: 108:. From the time it was founded in 1897 and until 1901, the clinic was managed by Alexander Becker, who had been the colony's chief physician since 1891, followed by Werner Steuber (1901–1905) and subsequently Hugo Meixner. The hospital was intended to treat only Germans and other Europeans. The Sewa Hadji Hospital, opened in early 1897, with German medical staff and financed by donations from the Indian 537: 81:. In the beginning, the hospital catered exclusively for the German community. The hospital was established to provide medical care for the growing number of Europeans in German East Africa, as the existing medical facilities provided by 283:
treatment, research and education center affiliated with the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences as a teaching hospital. With a total capacity of 256 beds, a corresponding number of patients are treated there.
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unit of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Dar es Salaam, was shifted from Muhimbili Medical Centre to the Ocean Road Hospital. In June 1996, Ocean Road Hospital was made an autonomous institute directly under the
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Some Tanzanian sources cite 1895 as the year of opening, but the comprehensive article by Schneppen (2000) cites ample evidence for October 1, 1897, from German historical archives.
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on the roofs. For the purpose of natural air conditioning, sickrooms were oriented towards the sea, and rooms exposed to direct sunlight were shaded by
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for malaria patients and buildings for maintenance and the kitchens. Medical and administrative staff lived in a separate building.
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A number of important German physicians and scientists worked and did research at the government hospital, above all
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David F. Clyde, History of the medical services of Tanganyika. Dar es Salaam: Government Press, 1962, p. 11.
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according to plans by the German engineer August Wißkow. It was opened on October 1, 1897, with only one
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and other parasital diseases, was the government pharmacist in Dar es Salaam at the time, and
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This article is about the historical hospital building. For the modern medical centre, see
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The conspicuous building in the "Arabian style" was erected in a park directly on the
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wing of Muhimbili Medical Centre. In 1980, the facility was converted into a
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In German colonial times, the relatively small number of physicians were
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Ocean Road Hospital was founded in 1897 by the colonial government of
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Sutton, J.E.G. (1970). "Dar es Salaam: a sketch of a hundred years".
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domes are each crowned with a star. Water was provided by a well and
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colonial government continued the former restriction of serving the
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Medicine and society in Tanganyika, 1890-1930: a historical inquiry
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were unsatisfactory. After initial plans to build the hospital in
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are also studied and treated at the Ocean Road Cancer Institute.
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Index

Ocean Road Cancer Institute

Swahili
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
German East Africa
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
tumor
German East Africa
mission stations
Zanzibar
Bagamoyo
medical officers
nurses
Catholic or Protestant missions
philanthropist
Sewa Hadji
Nobel Prize
Robert Koch
bacteriological
malaria
Surra
Texas fever
African sleeping sickness
East Coast fever
Gustav Giemsa
malaria
Robert Kudicke
pathologist
First World War

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