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A Widening Idea of Health: The SAMRC from Creation to Covid
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The promised land, 1974: The MRC begins to occupy the land given to it free of charge by the
Parow Town Council. The buildings are the MRC’s head office in a converted block of flats
(marked 1), the newly built home of the National Research Institute for Nutritional Disease
across the road from the MRC campus (marked 2) and the Tygerberg Hospital (marked 3).
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