Medical Officer of Health

Identity area

Type of entity

Governmental body

Authorized form of name

Medical Officer of Health

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

  • MOH

Other form(s) of name

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Contact area

Description area

Dates of existence

1892 – 1911

History

At the beginning of 1892 a branch of the Colonial Secretary’s Office was established under the title of the “Local Government and Health Branch”, and was placed in charge of a chief clerk. All medical, public health and local government matters were relegated to the branch. At this time also a medical adviser to the government was appointed but without official title. On the estimates for the financial year 1892 – 1893, provision was for the first time made for the appointment of a Medical Officer of Health for the Colony (Civil Service List 1910, p 160).

Places

Cape Colony.
Cape Town.

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Access points area

Subject access points

Place access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

MOH

Institution identifier

KAB

Rules and/or conventions used

ISAAR

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Partial

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

10 May 2022 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

  • Latin

Sources

Maintenance notes

  • Clipboard

  • Export

  • EAC

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