The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-06-23
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Medical /. T. !.
C.oue!e'e|e!s!;I. Is.
FOR NEGROES, WI1tA Z. Ex.
CEPTIQNs FOUND TO az.
BED CONDITION Q q
Howard and Meh.
Commended by Carnegie Found
For the Advancement Of TeacA-,ng,
but Others are Said to be Wasting
Small Sums Annually and Sending
out Undisciplined Men. .x(

but Others are Said to be Wasting
Small Sums Annually and Sending
'"' o"u'S'inlneo Men &5fiEE
The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement Of Teaching, which
in the five years of its existence hau
already exerted a powerful influence
for good upon Institutions for higher
education throughout the country:
! has Just issued it's bulletin number
4 showing the result of avery =
exhaustive inquiry into the subject
of Medical Education In the United
States and Canada T.. ...
In the chapter devoted to the med.
ical education Of the Negro, the bull
letin reads:
THE medical care Of the Negro
race will never be left wholly to tha
care Of Negro physicians Neverthe-
less, if the Negro can be brought to
feel a sharp responsibility for the
physical integrity of his people, the
outlook for their mental and moral
improvement will be distinctly
frightened. The practice of the
Negro doctor will be limited to his
own race, which In it's run will be
cared for better by good Negro
physicians than by poor white ones.
But the physical well-being Of. the
Negro is not only Of moment to the,
Negro himself. Ten million Of them.
live in close contact with sixty mil,
lion whites. Not only does the Negro
himself suffer from hookworm and
tuberculosis; he communicates them
to his white neighbors, precisely as
the ignorant and unfortunate white
contaminates him. Self protection
not less than humanity Offers
"elghty counsel in this matter; self
interest seconds philanthropy. Thes
Negro must be educated not only for
his sake, but for ours. He is. as far
as human eye can see, q permanent
factor: in the nation. He has. his
rights and due and value as an In
4 tdaVidual, but ne .ElTasSs 4SSii,<t= )
tremendous Importance that lbelonaS
to potential source of infection and /
| contagion." .''
| The pioneer work in educating
the race to know and to practice
fundamental hygienic principles must
De done largely by the Negro doctor.
and the Negro nurse. 1t is impor-
tant that they both be sensibly and
effectively trained at the level at
which their services are now i'm
portant. The Negro is perhaps more
easily taken in" than the white;
and as his means Of extricating him.
self from blunder are limited, 1t
is all the more cruel to abuse his
ignorance through any sort Of pret-
ense. A we'll taught Negro .sanitar-
lum Will be Immensely useful; an
essentially unframed Negro wearing
an M. D., degree Is dangerous"
| Make-believe in the matter of
Negro medical schools Is therefore
tintolerable. Even -good--intention
helps but little to change their as
pect. The Negro needs good schools
rather than many schools,-schoola .
10 winch the more promising OF the
race can be sent to receive a sub
stantlal education in which hygiene
rather than surgery, for example, is
strongly accentuated. If at the same
time these men can be imbued with
the missionary spirit so that they
Will look upon the diploma as a COM
MISSION to serve their people humbly
and deVotedly, they may play an i'm
tboftant- part in the sanitation and
civilization Of the whole nation.
Ihelr duty calls them away from"
large cities to the village and the {;
plantation, upon which light has
hardly as yet begun to break" :.
. OF the seven medical schools for
negroes in the United States,5
gton, D. c.; Howard Unives,,
slty; New Orleans: Flint Medical CoIas
lege; Raleigh, n. c.: Leonard -Medf--
cal School; Knoxville: Knoxville Med,
lcal College; Memphis; Medical De-
partlnent Of the University OF West
tennessee: Nashville: Meharry Med
ical College; Louisville: National
Medical College, five are at this
moment in no position to make any
contribution to the solution Of the
problem above pointed out; Flint iab
New Orleans, Leonard at Raleigh.
the Knoxville, Memphis, and Louis
vile schools are Intellectual. They
are wasting small sums annually and
sending out undisciplined men.
whose lack Of real training is COW
cred up by the imposing NJ D., de-
gree"
"Meharry at Nashville and HowS
ard at Washington are worth de-
Veloping, and until considerably ius
creased benefactions are available,
EFFORT will wisely concentrate upon
them. The future Of Howard Is aa~
sured; indeed, the new Freedman,s
Hospital Is an asset the like of which
is in this country extremity rare. II
is greatly to be hoped that the gov
Iernment may display liberal and
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