[The article contains a photograph of the building, but the digitized microfilm version is not clear enough to include here.] The above is a picture of the Negro Unit of the Knoxville General Hospital. This unit was built in 1933 … Continue reading
Tenn. Hospital Personnel Is Rated Equally No Longer a Difference Between Colored, White Physicians, Dentists by Dr. O. B. Taylor Knoxville, Tenn. — (ANP) — Through the efforts of the East Tennessee Hospital association, Negro physicians and dentists have been … Continue reading
Grave Charges Made Against Hospital Nurses Conditions at Knoxville Institution Investigated by City Board Knoxville, Tenn., April 24. — Charges that conditions at the Knoxville General Hospital are unsanitary, that regulations of the institution are not adequate to determine the … Continue reading
New Cancer Find Held ‘Promising’ ‘Several’ Melanoma Victims Get Respite with Radioactive Iodine in Knoxville Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 10 (AP) — A cooperative research group made up of Knoxville doctors and University of Tennessee scientists has stumbled on a promising … Continue reading
Hire Five Nurses at Tenn. Hospital Knoxville, Tenn. — (ANP) — Knoxville General hospital, municipally owned, is to have five additional Negro nurses, bringing the total number to nine. Three years ago, by agreement reached between the hospital officials, city … Continue reading
Hospital in Tiff over Shifts by Dr. J. H. Presnell Knoxville, Tenn. — (SNS) — A few days ago an article came out in the daily newspaper stating that forty members of the white staff of the Knoxville General Hospital … Continue reading
Mrs. Burnett’s Brother Dead Dissipation Ruined His Career — Was Long Supported by Authoress. Special to the New York Times. Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 10. — Deserted by a wife for whom he did not provide, penniless and destitute, John Hodgson, … Continue reading
A snippet from the newspaper column, “Strolling,” by Bert Vincent, local-color writer: Which reminds me of an operation at General Hospital that Dr. C. W. Rain tells about. The patient, from Newport, was named Hale. An interne named Sleet gave … Continue reading
These photos, probably from the Knoxville Journal, were published in August, 1956. They show James Daughtery on his arrival at the then-closed KGH Emergency Room and afterward at the new UT Hospital Emergency Room.Dr. James Lett provided this clipping. … Continue reading
All Bids Rejected. Estimates on the new Hospital Are Called for Again The hospital building committee held another meeting yesterday afternoon and as had been promised took definite action on the bids that had been submitted. Ten bids had been … Continue reading
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