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.
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.
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.
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.