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The Smell of Charity

Adcock, Joe | January 4, 1965 issue

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Last November, for the first time in the memory of Houston, Texas, the board of managers of the charity hospital was meeting not at the country club, but in the hospital itself. As they entered the boardroom, the grating of TV cameras and the chatter of reporters greeted the members. The managers dolfed their overcoats and made their, way to the table. Houston charity hospital problem dates back, long before the recent decades of phenomenal growth, to the post-reconstruction days when almost everyone was hard up.

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HOSPITALS; CHARITABLE uses, trusts, & foundations; HEALTH facilities; CLUBS; CHARITIES, Medical; PUBLIC health; HOUSTON (Tex.); TEXAS; UNITED States
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