Abstract:
Before the modern facility of Pitt Memorial Hospital was established, Doctors Joseph Smith (1889-1956) and Louis Cotton Skinner (1880-1942) operated a clinic and emergency hospital about 1921 at 123 West Third Street in the old Moye house, across from the Pitt County Courthouse. They were remembered for serving Black patients when other doctors refused to. Other early hospitals include St. Frances Hospital for black people in 1923 and Pitt General Hospital opened in 1924. The author gives a schedule of doctor’s prices for care from 1919.