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Columbia University physician, Dr. M .H. De Leon, advertises a "hospital for Negroes” in New York City.

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Dr. De Leon promises: “The owner of a patient will be exempt from any extra charges, save for surgical operations, which will be in proportion to their importance; but no operation whatever, will be performed without his full consent first obtained in writing."