D1.8.3: Incompatibilities

D1.8.3: Incompatibilities

Newspaper Clippings

Bleek muses on the improper organisation of labour in the colony, referring to two examples: the asylum on Robben Island and the burdens of its superintendent, Dr James Clephane Minto, and the Office of the Superintendent of Education, who also has to double as Inspector-General of Schools. He suggests these are just two of many incompatibilities that require a proper subdivision of labour.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

24 June 1862

Two cut-out columns of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).

Labour (problems of its division in the colony), Minto (Doctor at the Asylum on Robben Island), Superintendent of Education (in the Cape Colony), Robben Island Asylum (Dr Minto), Robben Island (living amongst the lunatics, lepers, and paupers)

Pressed clippings of Victorian opinion pieces on current affairs by Wilhelm Bleek entitled 'Incompatibilities'. Published in Het Volksblad on Tuesday, June 24th, 1862. Langham Dale, the Cape's second Superintendent (General) of Education, served between 1859 and 1892. Dr James Minto (1805-1896) served as Surgeon Superintendent of the Robben Island Infirmary from 1855 to 1862.

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