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WHAT OUR GOOD FRIENDS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT US.
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Dr. Matilda Evans, one of the first students at the Schofield School for colored youth, is carrying on a remarkable work. As a young girl she showed so much ability for nursing and medicine that Miss Schofield assisted her to go to the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia. After graduating, she returned to South Carolina and established herself at Columbia. She was the first woman physician in the State, and she has commanded unusual success and respect. When she first settled in Columbia there was no hospital there. Seing [[Seeing]] great need of one, she opened her own house as a hospital for a time. Then she rented a building where she now accommodates thirty patients. She had 500 surgical operations there in two years.

The Schofield School BULLETIN says: "All the city physicians—white—affiliate with the management, and place their patients there, and hold every important consultation with her. The best people of Columbia, men and women alike, hold this hospital in the highest estimation, and appreciate Dr. Evans as much. Her struggles and some of her experiences are startling and wildly exciting as she tells them, but she is proving what a woman can do, and one too, from a muce [[much]] wronged race." ——Woman's Journal
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To whom it may concern:

This certifies that I am personally acquainted with Dr. Matilda A. Evans and she is thoroughly reliable and that her hospital, the Taylor Lane Hospital and Training School for Nurses, in this city, is doing a most excellent work and one that is very much needed in this part of the world.

Nurses that are turned out from the training school are sought after by the doctors and the better class of people of our city. I have several of the nurses employed now nursing cases for me. This is a good work that Dr. Evans is carrying on and I truly trust that she will be able to continue the same and improve and enlarge her hospital and school as the demand for her nurses is much greater than the supply.

Respectfully, F. D. KENDALL, M. D.

Nov. 12, 1906.
(Dr. Kendall to show his appreciation of this work, has paid the telephone expense) for three years and contributed to its maintenance in other ways from time to time.
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To whom it may concern:

This is to certify that I have known Dr. M. A. Evans of this city for several years. During that time she has conducted the Taylor Lane Hospital for colored people. In spite of a severe lack of means the hospital has been conducted in a most commendable and efficient manner. I do not know what would have become of the injured and ill colored people here and abouts had she not had this hospital whose doors have always been open whether the applicant had money or not. It will always give me pleasure to speak a good word for Dr. Evans and her noble work in conducting this institution which has proven a great tax on her time and her very scant means.

W.M. WESTON, M.D.,
Surgeon, S. A. L. Rwy. Co., Columbia St. Rwy. Co.
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Doctor Evans:

Enclosed please find our check for $4.00 amount due for care of Wallace Wiggins. Let me personally thank you for your kindness. Your work is a noble one, and I sincerely wish that it was in my power to substantially attest my appreciation.

Yours truly,
W. B. HENDERSON, Supt. Olympia Cotton Mills

(Dr. Henderson afterwards sent the Hospital 200 yards of muslin for bandages and other necessary use.)