Raleigh, Oct. 6—According to the action of the Gastonia County commissioners, that county is to have a full program of Negro Welfare work, which will embrace the local colored hospital, health work in the schools and other health and welfare measures. This action has followed the recommendations made by Lieutenant Lawrence A. Oxley, head o the Bureau of work among Negroes of the State Board of Charity and Public Welfare, who has just returned from Gastonia where he made a thorough study of the needs of the Negro people of the county, at the invitation of the city and county commissioners and the county superintendent of public welfare, Mrs. Gertrude Keller.
A budget of $4,000 was approved by the commissioners, and it as decided to thoroughly re-organize the colored hospital in order to give greater service to the people of the community, once it was found that during the recent six months’ period, only 38 patients ere treated and of these 11 died. A 10-bed annex for Negro tubercular patients will be erected immediately on land donated by the city of Gastonia. The hospital is to be put in first class condition and will, under the new program, serve as a radiating center, in the development of a countywide health and welfare program, cooperating with the public health and public welfare departments. All school children are to be given a medical examination and tuberculosis, orthopedic and baby clinics are to be held at the hospital.
A registered nurse will be secured as superintendent of the hospital, and there will be four student nurses. The superintendent will also serve as assistant to the superintendent of public welfare. The surgeon-in-chief of the hospital is Dr. Lucius Glenn, a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners.
The city has appropriated $600 toward the budget of $4,000, and the county $1,000. The remainder will be derived from various sources, such as the sale of tuberculosis seals, fees from patients, private subscriptions from Negroes, and special gifts. About $500 will be necessary for repairs to the building and it is expected that the annex for tubercular patients will cost about $2,500. During the last 18 months, 15 Negroes have been sent from Gaston County to the State Sanatorium.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1926
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