"The average length of a Negro's life in the South at present is 35 years. It should be 50 years. . . ."
This modest hope was expressed 32 years ago by the late Booker T. Washington. As medicos this week marked the 33rd annual observance of Booker Washington's "National Negro Health Week," his wish had come true: today the life expectancy of U.S. Negroes (North & South) is 57 years.
But the U.S. Public Health Service, taking its annual inventory, found little reason for complacency. Negro health still lags a full generation behind that of U.S. whites (life expectancy: 66 years). Items:...
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