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[[image - black & white photograph of nurse, doctors, and patient in an operating room]]
[[caption]]OPERATING ROOM IN PROVIDENT HOSPITAL, CHICAGO[[/caption]]

There are 110 Negro hospitals in the United States. Some 22 of these are fully approved and 5 provisionally approved by the American College of Surgeons. Such hospitals as 50-year-old Provident in Chicago, Harlem in New York, and Mercy and Frederick Douglass in Philadelphia are well known in the North. In the South there are 14 approved hospitals; all have Negro doctors and nurses on their staffs. These include such institutions as Flint-Goodridge in New Orleans, the 1,500-bed Veterans' Hospital at Tuskegee, McRae Sanitorium in Arkansas, the excellent Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D. C. Despite our advances, the need for more hospitals is an imperative one that must be dealt with after the war. There is now one hospital bed for 1,000 Negroes as against one bed for every 110 whites.

[[image - black & white photograph of five women and four children]]
[[caption]]ONE OF THE REASONS FOR BETTER CHILD HEALTH--A "WELL BABY" CLINIC[[/caption]]