In its 200-year-old, vast and grubby Charity Hospital New Orleans has a medical ulcer which long has pained the local medical profession. Last year Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche secured $3,600,000 from the Public Works Administration and Charity's new director Dr. George Samuel Bel immediately started tearing down old buildings to make room for a 20-story hospital, the only State institution where Louisiana citizens may get all types of free medical care. While reconstruction progressed, patients had to be bedded in any available shelter. For Charity's Negroes, the old Negro Pythian Temple...
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