Dr. George Sanford Burruss established the Burruss Sanitarium in 1901. The hospital was for blacks in the South and was complete with twenty-seven rooms, modern equipment, and a staff of twelve black physicians and a proper training department for nurses. Burruss was born in Lavonia, Georgia, in Franklin County, in 1865. His early education was […]
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