Using information obtained from half the Negro students (about fifty) at the University of Michigan in 1939-1940, considers economic, academic, social and health adjustment problems.
Studies nature of the social service offered to ninety active non-white male cases known to Detroit Department of Public Welfare as of March 1949 where acute illness is the principal problem.
Contrasts state white and non-white rates; discusses Michigan's unfavorable position in state rankings and the number on Michigan killer of non-whites--tuberculosis.
Surveys Children's, Crittenden, Grace, New Grace, Harper, Holy Cross, Mt. Carmel, Mercy, Providence, St. Joseph's Mercy, Sinai, and Woman's Hospitals as to medical and nursing staff, and patient practices.