The People's Hospital. A History of McCords, Durban, 1809s-1970s

South African can claim to be home to three of the most important‬ hospitals of the last century. Across the world, Cape Town’s Groote Schuur‬ Hospital is still known as the place where the first successful human heart‬ transplant was performed in 1967. Soweto’s Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital‬ is equally internationally famous. With more than 3 000 beds and 6 000 staff,‬ it is among the largest hospital complexes ever built.1 McCord Hospital of‬ Durban in KwaZulu-Natal is older, smaller and not as well known as Groote‬ Schuur or ‘Bara’, but as this book illustrates its contributions to the history of‬ South Africa are easily as significant.‬