Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1945-02-24
Cross Section
Of Population
Is Questioned
81 Per Cent
In Favor Of Using
Them In Hospitals

DENVER (SNS) At time
when the acceptance by the Army
and Navy of Negro nurses is much
discussed, it is significant that
majority of civilians would accept
Negro nurse care in hospitals, as
revealed in a nationwide survey
conducted by the National Opinion
Research Center, University of
Denver
NORC's personally trained inter-
viewers questioned national
cross section of white civilians
adults men and women, young
and old, rich and poor,-in cities,
town, and rural areas throughout
the United States. All were asked:
IF you were sick in a hospital
would it be all right with you if
you had Negro nurse, or wouldn't
you like it?"
/ All right 500
/ Wouldn't like it AZ
Undecided l
1907
The 81 per cent include per
cent who would accept Negro care
but who express preference for
white nurses.
IGNORANT HESITANT
The more education a person
has the more willing he is to have
Negro nurse take care of him.
Seventy per cent of persons with a
college background but only SO per
cent of the high school educated
and As per cent of those with no
more than grade school education
answer All right" Six out of ten
(6296) residents of the North and
West, but only four out of ten
(42%o) Southerners, would be will
ing to receive care from a Negro
nurse in hospital
Comments from individuals in
tervieWed reveal that many white
people think very highly of Negro
nurses, and that some even pre-
fer them TO white nurses. A Pal
atine, IllionLs, storekeeper believes
Negroes are more tender hearted
than the white people" A New
York City machinist says: "You
probably get better care with Me-
gro nurse than with white nurse
a Brooklyn lawyer states. "W h J
We have Negro waitress and Ne.
gro mammies."
The wife of an engineer in Hou.
ston, Texas, replies: I'm a nurse
myself, and colored nurses arr
. very good. know many" Other,
who speak from personal expert.
ence comment: II was in the hos.
pital and had Negro nurses who
were wonderful to me-. L had {
Negro nurse who was the best
had. She was kinder and took more
pains to please me. ~ would
rather have Negro nurses. Whites
are too independent"
EXPRESS FEAR
Those VINO would NOT like Ne
gro nurse express either a general
dislike of Negroes or fear Of
them on grounds of cleanliness OF
health. Typical reactions are: %
oOil 1ihC 4NCSlOCo ClOSS III
1 just don't. .I don't want nc
niger messing around me. Negro
nurses should work for Other Ne
Igroes. - wouldn't want any nurse
if Negro was all could get......
Negroes don't seem clean to me-. :.
I'D never get we'll
A Montana cattle rancher ad-
mits: 81 wouldn't like it, but 1
believe a Negro nurse would take
better care of men than white
nurse" The wife of an Oregon
mill superintendent replies: I
| don't think I'd like it. I'm that
way about any other race. l sup
pose it's racial prejudice" A tele--
phone repairman in Louisiana
makes an interesting distinction:
Il wouldn't like a Negro nurse in
q hospital. It's all right in home
I was practically raised by a Ne
| gro nurse
| MANY UNDECIDED
The most frequent comments made
| bV persons who rnnlv HTINDEjHTT1.