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politicians had been consistently refusing to organize a hospital for the city's tax-paying Afrikan "citizens".
    Interestingly, during this era of American apartheid many, if not most of her patients were white. Her surviving family state that at many periods of her career, most of her patients were white. Some written histories state that these were mostly white women of some wealth who actually subsidized her charitable activities, to some extent. 
The white physicians who supported her were mostly men (many new to Columbia) and they performed surgery at Taylor Lane as well as provided fiscal support. Dr. LeGrand Guerry, a prominent Columbia surgeon, served as chief surgeon. A female physician, Dr. Jane Bruce Guignard, a later graduate of Women's Medical College, also lent considerable support. 
The nurse graduates apparently never had to look long for work. The reputation of the nurse's training school was so good that prospective employers waited outside during graduation in order to get the services of these young women. Many whites preferred Afrikan females as nurses during that time. 
Taylor Lane Hospital and Training School for nurses was chartered by South Carolina in 1902 but was destroyed by fire several years later. By the time it was destroyed, however, it had about 30 beds and had provided a site for more than 500 surgical operations in two years.
She then opened the St. Luke's Hospital that was located at 1019 Lady Street, the site of her previous hospital. Again, she soon outgrew this site (perhaps it was just a stopgap measure) and moved the St. Luke's Hospital to 502 Sumter Street, where she had 14 rooms and 20 beds and used modern/state of the art equipment. 
She was extremely interested in public health and sanitation issues among the Afrikan people of South Carolina and started a short lived medical journal, [[underline]]The Negro Health Journal[[/underline]], in 1916. In this regard, she was probably the first or one of the first South Carolinians to be truly concerned with public health. To this end, also in 1916, she organized and had chartered (by the South Carolina secretary of state) an organization called "The Negro Health 

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Not quite sure what the exact number is at the top right of the page. I believe it is a four but I believe it was erased. There is an X in blue ink at the bottom right of the page.