Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-05-26
Something About A Four Year Medical
School For Mississippi

The Intelligent and thinking Negro Citizens of Misss.
sp in all sections of the state cannot help but be in full
favor and with the efforts to the establish
lnen of full four year state supported Medical School
located in the city of Jackson If for other than
for the certain fact that the campaign Tor the scnoo VIII
be bound to attention upon and hghght the fact
that there standard premedica school In the
entire state for Negroes say nothing about kind OF
a medical college The obvious conclusion being that the
newly proposed medical school, although support
ed the money of the state contributed to by
all its citizens will be for the exclusive training of white
students
In listening to the speeches the radio reading
the press releases the facts brought out support OF
the need the four year school, showing that OF
white population of and quarter million people in the
state there only little thousand white doc
tors many of whom of far advanced age, with
suant shortening period of practice we'll life eX
pectancy does present alarming condition. both
pects the and with respects to the future
unes of the white citizens of the state to obtain
petent and adequate medical care and attention
Another alarming aspect of the situation effects
the white population its opportunities for competent and
adequate medical care and attention is the further fact
being brought in the campaign for the school that even
though white students who desire may obtain standard
preedcal training in state schools we'll two years
OF medical education at the University of Mississippi the
fact that such students must outside the state to com
pete their medical education and after completing their
medical education do their nterneship in hospitals out
side the state causing the state to lose the service OF
many who arisen and who will arise to emnence i'll
the profession, who choose to practice outside the state
after completing their medical education and inernshp
e. AS alarming the situation appears affects the
white population of the state with respects to both present
and future take look at the situation affects
the Negro population OF the state.
In population approximately the equal of the white
of the state there present ONLY F1FIYIWO
Negro Doctors in Mississippi proportionatey affected with
to their ability to continue to practice because OF
age and life expectancy Concentrated in the large cities
the the only fifty Negroes doctors leaves many
of many square miles, and many towns and villages
and communities where there is not Negro doctor within
fifty families and with the white doctors having their hands
full with the needs of the white people how much
alarming the conditions in the state regards the Negro
population with its fiftytwo doctors compared with
that of the white population with its thousand and
sixty.
The factors that contribute to the fact that there
are only thousand and sixty white doctors in the state
contributes with equal not greater force to the fact that
there is standard premedica to say nothing
medical available for Negroes anywhere in the
state Negro students must outside the state for stand
ard premeica training for medical education and intern
ship
Negro citizens of the state in full accord with the
efforts to establish the full four year medical college III
Jackson along with which they hope that provisions will
at least be made for premedica education for Negro Stu
dents in order to large number of the Negro
youths the state the medical profession in the
opportunities of the Negro Population for medical and
hopeful future