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Title: Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race (electronic resource): embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each : in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Haley, James T Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Mind and matter Settle, William B., former owner. GEU Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950, former owner. GEU Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, former owner. GEU
Subjects: African Americans African Americans African Americans
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Haley & Florida
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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two hours free to the sick and indigent poor every Wednes-day, Friday and Saturday during the college year. Hundreds attendhis free clinic and are helped, benefitted and cured of all kindsof maladies. While the Doctor does a larger charity and benevolentpractice, yet he* does a good paying practice. He has made moneyright along and invested it wisely. He owns several pieces of goodproperty among which is a magnificent three-story double brick ona corner opposite the Duncan House, one of the largest and mostpopular hotels in the city. His office, library and instruments will compare favorably withthose of our most wealthy physicians and surgeons. His horses andvehicles are of the best. Dr. Boyd is a typical example of what ayoung man can be in spite of the greatest oppositions. He is a hardworker and uses all of his power to elevate the race and bless man-kind. He is at present one of the Tennessee commissioners for theSouthern States and International Exposition at Atlanta, Ga. ♦ Vi
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64 AFRO-AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. THE MORTALITY OF THE COLORED PEOPLEAND HOW TO REDUCE IT (Read before the Tennessee State Convention of Colored Teachers, held at Nashville,Tenn., June 11-14, 1895.) GREAT deal lias been said and written about the great mortalityof the colored people in the South, especially in the large cities.The statistics are alarming, so much so that the less thoughtfulare expecting the race to become extinct. And why not, since theactual figures show that we die three and four times as fast as we areborn in large cities of the South V What is the cause and how can itbe diminished? There is no longei any doubt in the minds of physi-cians and the well-informed lait)T as to the cause of disease and thereal possibilit)- of reducing the mortality of a community andthereby prolong life. Under hygienic rules and regulations thehealth can lie improved and the cause of disease entirely removed.The profession formerly understood and defined hygiene as the artof preserving the

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