Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1934-04-01

mortality rate in the United States has manifested itself
in attempt to better for the sick.
In order to give particular attention to this phase
of social work which is constantly engaging the attention
not only the Doctors Nurses and Public Health Work
ers but to the public in general hospitals daily
being erected in all sections of the habtated globe
Modern Science has recognized that one of the best
no. should say the very best way of caring for the sick
is in we'll equipped hospital Why, you may ask have
they reached such definite and such pointed conclusion
which would take patient away from the loving atten
tons of his fond relatives? And that is Just it. The
sympathetic and unframed hands of his loving family
often prevents their being able to give patient Just
that kind of which is needed to get him her we'll.
To be placed in hospital denoted that you
thrown but nowadays it is pointed evidence that
you being we'll cared for
1t is an indisputabe and undenable fact that in an
institution with its various modern equipments for treat
ments with the bounfu supply drugs with the corps
Of trained and with the constant attention OF the
skilled physicians, patient has far better chance for
recovery than he has in private home which is
sarily lacking in all these respects.
But all to often the knowledge Of the ma jory of folk
and of negroes in partcuar-of hospitals. have not
passed the unenghtened stage of the agonizng of
patient whose eyes dmmed by the twilight Of death,
of the unpleasant OF ether other dsntectants
They fail to realize that such unfortunate individuals
usual y the victims of their lndlScret1OnS.
What do mean by saying that they the victims
of their indscretons? mean Just this Most peo-
pie have such warped such distorted such fantasca
opinions of hospitals that they will stay at home where
they the advantages of hospital and service
until when their condition does make it absolutely neces
that they to the hospital for treatment they have
sometimes placed themselves beyond the very best phys
clans skill Then, of it is all too late and when
they have passed into the unknown Of the great beyond
the relatives place the death at the door of the attending
physician.
This type Of propaganda has done more to harm
the growth of Negro hospitals than any other factor
and the victims of disease themselves seldom stop long
enough to reflect and to that is they themselves
who have created the very conditions of which they so
wrongfuy and scathngy crtcise physicians and nurses
This one thing must always be reaized-and that is
this that with the most unusual professional knowledge
and ability, doctor is after all Man and not God
And by this that the best that his skill and medical
erudton accomplish is to utilize the resources which
nature has placed at his command and this includes not
only medicines and nurses services but the and
vitality of the patient who to him for treatment
| If they to him with spark of life his ingenuity
and skill may be able to fan it into burning flame; but
conversely, if they to him with dying ember all OF
the ingenuity of medical science and his own persona
skill which he call into play cannot sometimes
that ember to reglow.
Too often folk wait until the embel has begun to die
by progressing disease and ignorance to its treat
ment. That is just what hospitals to prevent. Hos
ptal treatment aims to supervise and to prevent as well
to When this procedure is followed it Will so
often obviae the necessities of surgical and
other methods to which doctors must often
resort in order to human life
If you but had the opportunity Of visiting the Afro
American Sons and Daughters Hospital Yazoo City and
observing the patients who there for preventive
well for curative treatment you would clearly
and comprehensivey realize just what | mean. They
Just jolly, just happy just cheerful as their
condition will They do not enter the portals Of
this institution trembling with the idea that they are en-
rerng abbatoit This is because ninety per cent of
them have come in time the utimey casrophe to