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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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At the 46th annual session of the Mississippi Medical and Surgical Association in Greenville, Miss., Negro doctors endorsed Mound Bayou as the site for a proposed Negro veterans hospital, countering bids from McComb and Tupelo. They approved the state hospital plan, formed a committee on access, and elected 1946-47 officers.
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GREENVILLE, Miss. (Special)
--At the forty-sixth annual session of the Mississippi Medical and Surgical Association held at Mount Horeb Church here last week Negro doctors of the state endorsed Mound Bayou, the all-Negro Mississippi town as the site for education of the proposed hospital for Negro veterans sought by McComb City in the southern part of the state and by Tupelo, home of Congressman John Rankin.
The association also approved the state hospital and medical plan and appointed a committee to contact the proper authorities to ascertain their official policy regarding the use of the proposed hospital by Negro patients, nurses, physicians, and surgeons.
During the period 1946-47 the affairs of the association will be conducted by the following officers:
Dr. W. E. Miller, Jackson, president; Dr. L. L. Rayford, Grenada, vice-president; Dr. A. W. Dumas, Natchez, ex-secretary; Dr. Mattie Harris, Columbus, recording secretary.
Trustees: Doctors A. C. Harden, Columbus; S. H. Long, Greenwood; G. A. Carmichael, Canton; W. A. Zuber, Tupelo; P. M. George, Mound Bayou; W. Smith, Hattiesburg; L. Delaine, Greenville; Dr. S. D. Redmond, honorary trustee and legal advisor.
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Greenville, Miss.
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1946
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Negro doctors at the Mississippi Medical and Surgical Association's forty-sixth annual session endorse Mound Bayou as the site for a proposed hospital for Negro veterans, over proposals from McComb City and Tupelo. The association approves the state hospital and medical plan, appoints a committee to contact authorities on Negro patient access, and elects officers for 1946-47.