Hospitals and Nurses
Although American Negroes own and conduct over one hundred modernly equipped hospitals, even that number of buildings does not afford space enough to properly house the three thousand Colored graduate nurses now practicing in the United States, should all those angels of mercy at the same time apply for accommodations in the above institutions.
The writer regrets that as hard and patiently as he researched he was unable to secure a list of names of the Colored women doctors who are to-day practicing medicine in the United States. It, therefore, affords him great pleasure, at the very last moment on the eve of this publication coming from the press, to be able to rush in his book from the September 24, 1921, issue of the Chicago Defender, the following article regarding the distinguished abilities and works of one of the numerous Negro women physicians to-day following their profession in America:
“WOMAN DOCTOR RECEIVES FRENCH MEDAL OF HONOR.”
“Newport, R. I., Sept., 23.—Dr. Harriet A. Rice, prominent in Newport circles, received from the French government this week the Reconnaissance Francaise, a bronze medal, awarded her in July 1919, for her work overseas during the war. The medal reached her through the French Embassy at Washington.
“Dr. Rice is a graduate of Wellesley College and of the Women’s Medical College of New York. She served in the French military hospital during the greater part of the war from 1915 to the signing of the armistice, and it is for these services that she is decorated. The medal was presented her by Prince de Bearn, charge d’affaires of the French embassy.
“According to the citation which accompanied the medal, the woman is honored by the French government because of “her devotion and ability in caring for the French wounded during the war.”
IN DENTISTRY
The Toothache Man.
(The fellow who loves your tooth to jerk
And then with a smile, asks: “Did it hurt?”)
Yearly to him folks ought to go
To learn of holes they do not know;
So toughest steaks to finely grind
With nature’s teeth and not false kind.
—Harrison.