Record #:

22939

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

In 1916, Drs. Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse, Karl B. Pace, and M. T. Edgerton attempted to establish a hospital by advocating a bond issue for funds and the effort failed. In 1923, Drs. Laughinghouse, Pace, E. T. Dickerson, and W. I. Wooten mortgaged their property and borrowed money raising enough to build a forty-two room private hospital. The hospital opened on April 24, 1924, on Johnston Street in College View, with two full-time doctors. A nursing school operated there from 1923 until 1932. After the need arose for a facility for African Americans, the hospital officials renovated the basement, serving 12 to 15 patients and added a children's wing during 1933 and 1934. The hospital closed in 1951 after serving 42,216 patients.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Feb 5-18 1986, p12-13, il

Subject(s):

Hospitals--Pitt County; Pitt County--Hospitals