• Tuesday, July 27, 1526 RPS I /m //»r —-1 /•'''Wc.as —d ' C lboftrses: A f tWS IS A SWSLL ■ J 1 HlfttlkiS SWVStHg / X- l J i'.puscfm wtviOA / . I hosqoitoos *>>««■ ( of&imtSt* \ VOO oGP*. y [ TOPKTVUS.YTWfe C V ' I PIACCS- ) FIM6SV puxefe OMTHCI ■ ■ ' ' j t ~ - - CV , . .. i jh-.. ... HI" ■ IKIIM.I ’■! I - ■- .-I"'.. - , ■ ■ , ...... - - NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS Margaret Bridgers in The Uplift. North Carolina in 1985 had 153 hospitals in 59 counties, with 11,997 beds for 2,812,090 people. Tne count covers hospitals, public, private, semi public, and institutional —88 general hospital, 11 nervous and mental fcos itnls. 25 tuberculosis hospitals, aud 29 others. Included in this count are nine ne gro hospitals with 353 beds for a pop ulation of 763,400 negroes. These negro hospitals' are located in Ashe ville, Durham, Gastonia, Charlotte, Wilmington. Henderson, Monroe and Raleigh (2). The counties having no hospitals 1 for either race are 41, as follows: Alexander, Alleghany, Bertie,- Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Caswell, Chat ham, Clay,.Columbus, Currituck, Dare, Dhvie, Duplin, Hertford, - Hoke. Hyde, Jacksonfi. Jones, Mitchell, Montgom ery, Onslow, Pamlico, Pender, Perquimans, Person, Samp- Warreiq Yad kin and Yancey. The law allows county .group ] hos pitals wherever two oe am counties can agree on eo parfnhnjlfin 1 tcfjns. sb far there is no county grodp hos pital in North , , _ The first public hospital m Sorth Carolina was founded, as a gracious charity—the Rex Hospital in Ralaigh in *1839. Thirty years ago ams" sighted North Carolinian, Geprge W. Watts, gave a hospital to his county and then spent more for years won dering if people were going to use it. I He had reason to wonder fqr during I the first nine months only sixtyAight patients came to this hospital. It could have served twice as many more. This county was not ungrate . ful ; its attitude was that of the gen -1 eral public which thought op hos pitals at that time simply as places where people went to die. §mce that time public opinion has changed to such an extent that North Carolina now provides one hospital i bed to every .496 inhabitants, a decid ed improvement over the raio of 1920 rv tm eeNeo&B bary tmbunb which., was one bed to every 761 ill- .t habintants. Despites the progress, t Ndrth Carolina raftlS thirty-niqfh 1 aniong the southern States in niimber \ of inhabitants per hospital bed. The 1 first twenty-four states in the Union I raft go from 154 to 297 t Pei hospital bed. Thus half the i states provide two hospital beds where ( North Carolina provides only one. < Urban Location I The need of hospital facilities is brought even closer home when ( we realize that North Carolina ranks , twenty-eighth according to the per- ] centflgc of counties without-hospitals. | In this respect North Carolina with '] 41 counties without stands first . i among the southern states. Georgia ranks forty-eighth with 68.3 per cent. | , of the counties without hospitals. • Three spates, Connecticut, Maine and , New Hampshire, have hospitals in ev , ery county. The tendency toward concent ration , in ( urban areas is revealed by the fact ■ that nearly three-fourths of North , Carolina hospitals are located in slx •• ty-ffve towns, qf which thirty one have less than 2,500 or more inhabitants. ■ More than 'naif the hospitals are lo i cated in towns of 5.000 or more in . habitants. All the nine negro hos ■ pitals in the state are located in tovyns of 9,0000 or more inhabitants. These hospitals provide one bed for i evorry 2.163 negroes in North Caro i link. This rather startling ratio is i decreased by the freed beds available • to negroes in general hospitals, But . the reduction is not large according r to the latest report. The Present Situation . Nortli Carolinians are quite proud ; of what the state lias done in public t health work, but they do not seem | t to realize that our hospital facilities • bear directly upon public health. Do - they realise that forty-one counties • have no hospitals, that only thirty - six have county health departments i and. that half the doctors are located iii towns of 2,500 or more inhabi j tants? Do they realize that two i thirds of the rural counties have only 1 one hospital per thousand inhabitants - where a tleose five are needed? ) YVith the number of country doc- .tors decreasing the health needs of ’ the rural sections are pressing. It is frue that the state has made laws which facilitate the construction of 1 hospitals by counties, but only the most advanced counties are willing or able to finance these institutions. The extreme eastern and western counties do’ not fall in this group, and many of them have not gi*eat need for hos pital facilities. The Duke Endowment It seems then as though help must code from other sources. YVithin the lakt year a new source has been found, the Duke Foundation. This foundation offers one dollar per day for every bed occupied by a charity patient in hospitals which are not run soil y for private gain, The real value of this gift is apparent, when we, realize that two-thirds of the pa tients in this state fall in the charity group, n proportion slightly higher than that of the whole country. Sherman Proved That “War Is Hell.” (By International News Service) Atlanta, Ga., July 26.—Sixty-two yekrs ago this week, to the tune of “Marching Through Georgia,” Gen eral Sherman, who gained fame by his-celebrated definition of "'war. was engaged in his equally celebrated march from Atlanta to the sea. A handful of Confederate veterans anil members of their fainilites here when the Civil YVar episode took place, held an unofficial observance of the historic incidents enacted when the federal forces, crushing the small force of Confederate defenders, sacked Aatlantn, left it in ashes and con tiiined towards Savannah, laying waste to the countryside, and de j straying every living thing in its path. “Sherman said that war is hell, and he proved it,” remarked one gray haired veteran, recalling the episode. Toasted bread formed a favorite addition to English drinks in the 16th and 17th centuries: hence the custom of drinking "toasts.” Practically ever adult Eskimo liv ing in the region of Point Barrow, Alaska, is a member of the church. 'iii n i.i'i YADKIN RIVER YIELDS J? SOME MAMMOTH CARP fi Twelve Pound Fish Thrivtag in the Q Muddy Water Far From the Sea. S( Lexington, July 26.—One hundred J and eleven carp, deelared to average jj about five pounds apiece, were caught 5 in the Yadkin river about Jwelvc ] i miles west o{ here, by a party of j farmers from Davidson and Orange ) counties, who spent three days in t camp there late last week. 1 5 In addition a number of fairly large , i catfish, a red horse weighing over four $ pounds, a bass or two and several vj other fish were kept. All carp weigh- 0 ing ijnder two pounds and all except . 3 the larger catfish were t'arown back i into the stream, it is said. $ Over thirty men were in the camp-. > ing party, Headed by J. E. Youpg y and two sons, of Silver Hill to.wn ship, and many farmers,of Davidson and Davie counties were attracted by stories of the success of the fishers. A 60-foot seine was used to. hem the fish in a small area and then ia 1 large number of men would get in the inclosure, drive the carp up next to the seine, where they were all caught with the hands. Not a single fish was lifted out with the seine itself, it is deelared, and clubs were barred. The Yadkin is said to contain thousands of large carp but unless the proper method is used, i£ is said, it is hard to get the big fellows. Sein ing it permitted in the Yadkin during June, July and August, except for fifty yeards on either side of tribu tary streams.- but all of the smaller C streams of the county are closed ex- ? cept for hook fishing, which is per mitted without restrictions. The largest carp caught by the J band last week weighed over twelve 1 pounds, it was stated. 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