SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Medical missionary work RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reading from autobiographical piece, "One Foggy Morning", prepared by Mrs. Joy Duncan, medical historian in Alberta; arriving at the Bella Bella hospital on 22 October 1944; Dr. George Darby; R.W. Large; Matron Marjorie McDowell; Dr. Darby was a "ten talent man"; native Indians; night duty; anecdote of Beatrice, a patient; staff; holiday; first radio-telephone in 1947; births; burns anecdote; 1948 government takeover of hospital finances; antibiotics; the Kitimat flu epidemic; ear infection anecdote; donations; rare diseases; fragile bones; Vince Ton Van Coni syndrome; Von Reckle Heim's disease; cysts; summer hospital at Rivers Inlet; five babies delivered in five nights; immunization; summer hospital closed in 1957; first aid post at Wadhams Inlet [Landing?]; cold snap; Dr. Darby's work; Dr. Ruth Allison was the first full time assistant to Dr. Darby; Dr. David Chisholm; Dr. Page, now Dr. Henderson; little Nellie from Takoosh; skin condition; Adenbrook lighthouse; premature baby; shin abscess; food poisoning of three sisters and the analysis and discovery of the toxin by Dr. Dolman at the provincial lab; trip to Vancouver with a boy with a club foot; storm in Queen Charlotte Sound; statistics for the Bella Bella hospital in 1958; burial of dead patients; off duty activities; social life at Bella Bella. TRACK 2: Social life of Bella Bella; Indian lifestyle; anecdote about a grounded boat; medical student at Bella Bella; Dr. Clarence Coho and his poem celebrating a birth on the high seas; farewell party for Dr. Darby in 1959 when he left Bella Bella; Dr. Peter Kelly's words for Dr. Darby; her birth in Ontario; Detroit hospital nurses training; why Bella Bella?; Dr. Bob Henderson; various other doctors; Dr. Darby's illness and funeral.
