From The Indianapolis News, Wednesday, June 15, 1921: To relieve the shortage of nurses at City Hospital, a request was presented today to the Indianapolis health department by a committee of the Aesculapian Society, an organization of colored physicians, that colored nurses be substituted for white nurses assigned to colored patients at the City Hospital and that a training class of six to ten women be opened for colored nurses. Dr. Sumner A. Furniss, head of the committee, said Kansas City and St. Louis have set aside wards in their hospitals for colored patients. City Hospital is the only public hospital in Indianapolis now open to colored patients, and setting aside a ward for their use and providing them with colored nurses would make it possible for colored physicians to practice among these patients at the hospital, said Dr. Furniss.