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 However, Miss Doyle wrote about the blacks she cared for saying that they were “dependent, irresponsible, mentally immature, generally shiftless, and idle…the males spasmodically employed and solely in the lowest forms of labor.”

 

Miss Doyle expressed quite candidly in her paper her belief that rural blacks were more of a challenge than blacks living in the city because of limited resources such as school houses, housing, employment, medical providers, and sanitary living conditions.  She wrote that rural blacks were suspicious of white doctors and nurses, and they felt neglected by the system.  She discussed the culture of blacks living in the rural south, and the things nurses needed to understand in order to provide adequate care, build trust, and improve communication.  Although she described blacks as inferior to the white race, her dedication and compassion as a public health nurse seemed to prevail.  Miss Doyle’s final recommendation in her paper was that legislative bodies recognize blacks as human beings entitled to the same privileges as whites: sanatoria, hospital care, proper housing, and improved educational facilities.