The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-30

40 NCli az p" INV iifoy ScNoih
The answer is yes-there has been
such hospital since last December.
Sydenham hospital. located al l23rd
street and Manhattan avenue, offers
an example Of applied democracy,
and the experiment is working.
Il came to Sydenham 10 have my
baby" Mrs. Louis Bradzel. social
worker who lives al 1852 Fifty-sec-
ond avenue. Elmhurst. told me. be
cause ! had heard OF the interraclal
set-up" Mrs. Bradzel. who has
been a patient in such hospitals as
Johns Hopkins. likes the atmos-
phere at Sydenham." Even though
she had a caesarian operation she
received such good care from the
floor nurses that she did not need
a special nurse.
At that moment the floor nurse
brought in the eleven-day-old Brad
eel bundle 10 be nursed. Mrs. Lu-
ellie Phillips. the nurse. is a New
York girl who had 10 60 TO Rich
mond 10 a Negro medical college
10 train.
Stress Equal Treatment
AT Sydenham il makes no differ
ence whether patient who wants
a private room is Negro or white.
Previously any and all Negroes
needing disqualification, with the
possible exception Of Negro celeb
rlty. had 10 go into the wards OF
the city hospitals.
Recently d Negro judge in New
York developed an acute attack OF
appendicitis al am. He called
Dr.. Peter Murray, highly respect
ed Negro surgeon on the stan OF
Sydenham. He has had three spe-
cial nurses. since the nursing stan
al the hospital recently went on an
eight-hour shift. Two OF them are
Negro and one is white.
Among the fortv-eisht nurses ON
the Sydenham staff there are now
few more Negro than white girls.
The aim is 10 have an equal num-
Der
At Sydenham excellently quail
fed Negro nurses are given posi-
lions OF responsibility over other
nurses Mrs. Louise Parker. who
graduated from the training school
at Harlem City hospital. is charge
nurse on the semi-private floor. ana
Mrs. Ludelle Delaney. another Ne
gro. is her assistant.
When Negro and white patients
were put In the same semi-privae
wards. Mrs Parker watched to see
the white patients reactions. There
were no unpleasant incidents. Once.
when . Negro woman patient was
being moved for another reason, .
white woman said she liked having
her there.
Men patients in the wards some
times have alterations, but they
have not been serious. Miss Enc
line Coffin. supervisor who did
her post graduate work al Mt. Sinai.
said. She has been al Sydenham
for three and a half years. She was
not one VI the handful of nurses
who left when the luter-raclal eN-
pertinent was started.
Miss Florence Kaplowitz, a nurse
in the emergency ward. said she
had never seen a Negro patient, let
alone a Negro nurse. At the Barnard
Memorial hospital in Paterson. N j.
Lesson In federation
She has been az Sydenham two
years and prefers the new set-up
II used 20 be that Negro patients
brought into the emergency room
thought the white nurses and doc
tors would he against them. Now
they see both NEGRO and white
pcoplc caring for them.
Tolerance" Miss Kaplowitr
thinks. has to begin here nj home
If we are honest about what We
are fighting for" She has mixed
with Negroes socially and found
them fine people.
The white and Negro doctors get