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The Dietetics of Natives Employed on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

A. J. Orenstein
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The Witwatersrand gold mines are a series of approximately forty gold mines situated in the Witwatersrand district of the Transvaal. The mining area runs roughly from east to west for a distance of about sixty miles. All the gold mines are what is known as ‘deep’ mines, the average working depth being well over 4,000 ft. below the surface. Some mines are considerably deeper, and a few are now working at a depth of approximately 7,000 ft. The Witwatersrand is situated at an elevation of between 5,000 to 6,000 ft. above sea-level.

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Research Article
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Africa , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , April 1936 , pp. 218 - 224
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Copyright © International African Institute 1936

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References

page 218 note 1 Turner, the late Dr. G. A., ‘Some Anthropological Notes on South African Native Mine Labourers.’ Appendix I, Report of Tuberculosis Research Committee, Publication of the South African Institute for Medical Research, March 1932.

page 218 note 2 DrE. P., Stibbe, ‘A Preliminary Note on the Relationship of Weight to Height, Age and Work in Different Native Races’, Proceedings of the Transvaal Mine Medical Officers' Association, March 1924.Google Scholar

page 219 note 1 Cf. article on ‘Urban Native Food in Johannesburg’, by Ellen Hellmann, p. 277.

page 222 note 1 Lancet, 6 May 1933.