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W. Montague Cobb

From: Medical Care and the Plight of the Negro. New York, NY: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; August 1947

UNEQUAL DIVIDENDS OF PROGRESS

About 30 percent of persons aged 65 and over today, owe their survival to progress in medicine, public health and general welfare since the year of their birth. The benefits of this progress and the chance it affords for increased longevity have not, however, been uniformly available to all elements of the American population. We have tended to operate on the principle that one is entitled to only such medical care as he can pay for, with the result that the best medical personnel and facilities have become concentrated in our urban centers of greatest wealth. This leaves rural areas . . . [Full Text]

NEGRO HEALTH STATUS

PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL

NEGRO MEDICAL GHETTO

OLD CLOTHES TO SAM: THE HOSPITAL DILEMMA

NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE REMEDIES

FINALE

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