Английская Википедия:Edgecombe Sanitarium
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Edgecombe Sanitarium was a private hospital run by African American doctors in Harlem, New York City. It served patients "of considerable means"[1] who did not want to be served at the primarily white staffed Harlem Hospital.
Godfrey Nurse was one of the doctors who founded the hospital. The hospital had twelve beds.[1] It was started as the result of the Harlem Hospital having a primarily white staff.[2]
In 1925, the nearby Booker T. Washington Sanitarium was merged with Edgecombe.[2] In 1929, Edgecombe had treated 249 patients. Through fundraising, the hospital installed an x-ray machine.[3]
Gerri Major was part of its Woman's Auxiliary.
Notable patients
- Jean Carey Bond was born at the hospital.
- Eloise Bibb Thompson died at the hospital in 1928.
- Rudolph Fisher died at the hospital in 1934.[4]
References
External links
- Receipt from the Edgecombe Sanitarium, February 18, 1931 from the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst archives
