Kansas City General Hospital No. 2

The article starts: "At the turn of the century, public hospitalization for Kansas City, Missouri, non-white population was very limited. There existed on Holmes Street, overlooking the Belt railroad tracks, the Kansas City Municipal Hospital, later to become known as 'Old City Hospital'. This structure built in about 1873, with some later additions, housed for 35 years the indigent sick whites, with a few beds for the non-whites (Negro and Mexican)." Mentioned are Dr.Thomas C. Unthank and Dr. J. Edward Perry. Perry opened the Perry Sanitarium in 1910, Kansas City's first private Negro hospital. The history concerning the building of General Hospital No.2 for African Americans is given with lists of doctors who were on staff. Also discussed are topics as how well other hospitals in the area integrated, integration in the Kansas City Health Department, information concerning Queen of the World Hospital which opened in the mid-1950s, the Kansas City Medical Society, Douglass Hospital, Wheatley-Provident Hospital, the Doctors Clinic, etc. Short biographical information is given at the end of the article for the following article contributors: Samuel U. Rodgers, Walter R. Peterson, James S. Johnson, Harry S. Jonas, Charles B. Wilkinson, Houshang Yaghami, John W. Armstead, and Myron H. Watkins.