Speers Memorial Hospital
Admissions for African Americans
1905-1909 1917
Admission Books 1 and 2 are missing and
Admission Book 3 starts with September 27, 1905. Admission book 4 ended
with a June 3, 1909 date. Book 11 starts with April 12, 1917. These books
are part of the
Speers Memorial Collection at the Campbell County Historical Society. There is
more information on each patient's record than can be presented here. Only those
entries that were marked colored are entered here.
CC-Campbell Co
CB-City of Bellevue
CD-City of Dayton
CN-City of Newport
OR-operating room
d-died
| Name | Admitted | Address | Disease or Injury/Remarks | Discharged | Charged |
| Alexander, Mary (61) | Jan 22, 1906 | none listed | senile dementia | Mar 4, 1906 | CN |
| Brent, Hannah (47) | Apr 25, 1906 | 55 8th St-Covington | abscess vertesbral | May 19, 1906 | $3.50 |
| Charway, James (37) | Aug 3, 1917 | Brent, Ky. | gun shot in left leg/county prisoner | Aug 17, 1917 | County |
| Charway, James (37) | Aug 20, 1917 | Brent, Ky. | gunshot wound left leg/county prisoner | Aug 22, 1917 | County |
| Chislom, Clarence (22) | Aug 18, 1917 | New Richmond Ky. | scalp wounds/laborer | Aug 25, 1917 | C&O |
| Christian, Henry (18) | May 21, 1917 | Union Springs, Alabama | sprained ankle/laborer | June 1, 1917 | L&N RR |
| Clark, Will (27) | June 5-1907 | 612 Philadelphia-Cinn Oh | fracture lower leg | Aug 5, 1907 | $12-OR |
| Crooks, Mattie (17) | May 22, 1917 | 321 Isabella-Newport | obstetrical/cook | June 3, 1917 | CN |
| Dillard, Geader (21 | Apr 18, 1917 | Silver Grove | La Grippe | Apr 29, 1917 | C&O |
| English, Emma (25) | Feb 6, 1906 | Southgate St-Newport | baby girl born Apr 15 | Apr 28, 1906 | CN |
| Franklin, Gertrude | Nov 30, 1917 | 2240 Bedford Ave-E Walnut Hills-Cincinnati | tonsillectomy & adenoids/cook/sister Katie Donahue | Dec 7, 1917 | $15 |
| Friend, Clarence (23) | Aug 9, 1917 | Covington | intestinal grip/tract labor/father Albert | Aug 13, 1917 | C&O |
| Johnson, Effie (23) | July 25, 1917 | Greenville, Ala | typhoid fever/labor | Aug 14, 1917 | CN |
| Johnson, John (19) | Apr 18, 1917 | 1309 Spring St-Cov | typhoid fever/laborer | May 23, 1917 | C&O |
| Lightfoot , Daisy & child | Aug 4, 1907 | 306 E 1st St-Newport | torn perinium | Aug 17, 1907 | CN |
| Lotz, Marie (32) | Aug 31, 1907 | 131 W 2nd St-Newport | rectal fistula | Sep 1, 1907 | $12 |
| Moody, Chester (19) | Sep 8, 1917 | Silver Grove | wound of knee/track labor | Sep 10, 1917 | C&O |
| Oliver, Thomas (39) | Oct 24, 1905 | 11 & Saratoga-Newport | post epilepsy insanity | Nov 2, 1905 | CN |
| Parker, Walter (34) | Nov 12, 1907 | L W Shop-Cov Ky. | pendulous scrotum | Nov 26, 1907 | $7-OR |
| Rice, Minnie (17) | May 2, 1917 | 510 Chestnut-Newport | brought by patrol | CN | |
| Smith, Rodger (22) | Oct 15, 1905 | 3rd near Clay-Dayton | typhoid fever | d-Oct 16, 1905 | CD |
| Stumpe, Tillie (24) | June 29, 1906 | 925 2nd Ave-Dayton | salpingo ophoritis | July 27, 1906 | $5 |
| Thompson, Mrs. Lewson | Sep 24, 1906 | 22 Broad St-Covington | sclerotic ovary | Oct 11, 1906 | $15 |
| Wooding, Geo (27) | Sep 10, 1917 | Covert Run Pike-Newport | gun shot wound of left arm/labor | Sep 17, 1917 | county |