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North Carolina Doesn't Have Enough Hospital Beds, July 9, 1926

Too Few Hospitals in North Carolina

North Carolina in 1925 have 153 hospitals in 59 counties, with 11,997 beds for 2,812,000 people. The count covers hospitals public, private, semi-public, and institutional—88 general hospital, 11 nervous and mental hospitals, 25 tuberculosis hospitals and 29 others.

Included in this count are nine negro hospitals with 353 beds for a population of 763,400 negroes. These hospitals are located in Asheville, Durham, Gastonia, Charlotte, Wilmington, Henderson, Monroe, and two in Raleigh.

From page 5 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, July 9, 1926

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