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West Coast Medical Historical Society oral history collection Hospitals--British Columbia
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Clarence Bradbury interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aid to the handicapped & community health services PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; training for rehabilitation work, 1945 to 1947; early rehabilitation work in BC; provincial government involvement, 1948 to 1950; development of rehabilitation programs; experimental programs. TRACK 2: Continued discussion of experimental programs; work in Kelowna and Nanaimo; reception of programs by the public and physicians; work in Chilliwack and Prince George; operations and developments since 1967; rapid expansion of programs; finances of cost shared programs; future hopes of programs.;

Donald Watt interview

CALL NUMBER: T1983:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Don Watt : medical missionary work, United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background in Ontario; medical positions held; Skidegate Inlet, 1946; Queen Charlotte Hospital, 1955; type of medical work there, coronary work; life style in the Queen Charlottes; influence of church on Dr. Watt; effects of United Church medical work; Bella Bella, 1942 -1960, large growth; tuberculosis in BC; Port Simpson Hospital; types of medical problems in United Church Hosp;itals. TRACK 2: Christianity and medicine; income of United Church doctors; payment other than money; income tax; Government subsidy for rural isolated doctors; payment for services; regional hospital districts; United Church and government takeover of Bella Bella Hospital; penicillin; x-ray equipment; technical advances in rural medicine; satellite communication.;

CALL NUMBER: T1983:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Don Watt; Medical Missionary Work, United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Hugh McGuire, an outstanding surgeon from Alabama with futuristic ideas for rural medicine; liaison between city and country; United Church involvement; use of specialist from UBC Faculty of Medicine for medical programs; veterinary experiences. TRACK 2: Humourous veterinary experiences; work anecdotes; Red Cross; Indians in society; birth control; sterilization; abortion.

Thomas Perrett interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): General Surgeon and Work for the Workers Compensation Board PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background, childhood; schooling and music lessons; university and medical training; post graduate work in surgery; internship at Toronto General Hospital; practice in Welland after internship; effect of Depression on practice; war years; practicing Ottawa; aviation doctor and medical statistics; practice in Kamloops and discussion of facilities there; the formation of the Seymour Clinic in Vancouver; teaching at UBC Department of Surgery; surgical consultant at WCB; assistant director of medical services at WCB; duties; employee health unit. TRACK 2: Medical Director's responsibilities; coordination and education; pensions for disability; psychology playing larger role in claims; industrial hygiene at WCB; sound pollution; rehabilitation at WCB.

William Barclay interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Native Indian Tuberculosis Control Programme PERIOD COVERED: 1924-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; graduation; first interest in tuberculosis; Saskatoon Sanatorium; treatment of tuberculosis then; moving to BC in 1941; opening hospital at Sardis; problems; public attitudes; case-finding facilities; incidence of TB among Indians; Indians attitudes toward the hospital; development of TB control program; public education; opening hospitals at Nanaimo, 1945 and Prince Rupert,1946; treatment, streptomycin. TRACK 2: School for patients; handicrafts; fire at hospital in 1948; relation between federal and provincial TB control; TB Christmas Seals.

Adam Waldie interview

CALL NUMBER: T2000:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church Medical Missionary, Dr. Adam Clayton Waldie PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; clinical psychology course at UBC; degree at University of Alberta; idea of working with Dr. George Darby at Bella Bella; summer job as medical assistant while studying medicine; temporary licences under Dr. Darby; Bella Bella 1947; description of native Indians; history of Dr. Darby; distinguished member of same medical class; Kwakiutl Indians; seasonal migrations of Indians; work at Dr. Darby's hospital. TRACK 2: Twenty-five bed hospital at Bella Bella; tuberculosis and treatments; Dr. Darby's character and knowledge of Indian language and culture; Dr. Darby as minister and educator; first operation performed; description of some cases. CALL NUMBER: T2000:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church Medical Missionary, Dr. Adam Clayton Waldie PERIOD COVERED: 1947-1950? RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Whiting 1947; relieving him for two weeks at Bella Coola hospital; local history; fish tapeworm; Dr. Whiting's methods; rabbit test; X ray; broken collar bone; trapper Ralph Edwards of Lonesome Lake; Mrs. Edwards; Dr. Waldie's first female examination, pregnancy and delivery; discussion of specific medical problems. TRACK 2: Weekly visits to Goose Bay; opium pills; sailing conditions; types of medical problems.; CALL NUMBER: T2000:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church Medical Missionary, Dr. Adam Clayton Waldie PERIOD COVERED: 1947-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: 1947 Dr. Barby; boats used; venereal disease; pregnancy anecdote; eye tumor; alcoholic doctor story; leaving for Vancouver in late summer 1947. TRACK 2: 1957 -- helping Dr. Herman McLean at Esperanza; his history; Christian Shantymen's Association; emergency flight to Vancouver; sightseeing flight back; summary of effect of medical missionary work.

Winnifred Neen interview

CALL NUMBER: T2002:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health nursing ; a practical experience in involvement PERIOD COVERED: 1902-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Neen describes her personal and early educational background up to beginning nurses training in 1923; a description of life in the nurses residence, curfew and roommates; the emphasis of the course, lectures, duties, and Ward X; a statement of qualifications for nursing in 1923 and the size of the VGH class; a brief statement of jobs held after graduation; special nurse in Trail, Nanaimo and San Francisco; introduction to the Rotary Clinic, staff, location and an aside on relief. TRACK 2: More on the Rotary Clinic and treatment available for TB patients; isolation techniques, enforcement and placarding; a brief recollection of Dr. Norman Bethune and his visit to Vancouver; changes in the Rotary Clinic; association with VGH; amalgamation with Metropolitan Public Health staff in 1936 and changes in treatment with the introduction of PAS and streptomycin; a discussion of the effects of the Depression on health units; the growth of baby clinics; services, restrictions and time spent at; involvement in social work; referrals to out-patients VGH, Social Services; Children's Health Centres. CALL NUMBER: T2002:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health nursing ; a practical experience in involvement PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Involvement in school health programs and an anecdote about Miss Elizabeth Breeze; activities in schools, examinations, iodine tablets, athletics; growth of mental health program and an anecdote about TB derangements and problem of civil rights and forced hospital admissions; public health nurse and changes in VD clinics; anecdotes of follow-up situations; Shanghai Alley at Alexander and Cordova Streets; Stella the prostitute. TRACK 2: A continuation of the story of Stella; the Stafford Hotel and the issue of money; Miss Neen took a supervisory course and McGill in 1947 and returned to coordinate the TB program; a description of the mobile TB units and their locations; the involvement at Oakalla, including the installation of the TB units; staffing and training, the hospital, problems, security, and an anecdote about arriving at the prison gates; anecdote about a Lancashire man as an example of the scope and involvement of a public health nurse; retirement in 1963 after forty years in service.

Frank Mottishaw interview

CALL NUMBER: T2354:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Industrial first aid in BC RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early personal history; 1914 to 1929 lived in Nanaimo; went to Princeton to work in the coal mines; description of working there; 1935, went to Bridge River Valley above Lillooet; in 1937, came down to Duncan for a while, and left for Princeton again; back to Kamloops to work at Windpass Mine, a gold mine; some details of the life in each of these places; work camps and the Depression; uses of mules in the mines; went to work in Industrial Timber Mills for seven months on Vancouver Island; requirements for industrial first aid attendant at the time Mr. Mottishaw was in it at Windpass Mine; some accidents at Windpass; went to Zeballos in 1939 and worked as a first aid attendant; description of life and what he did there. TRACK 2: More description of Zeballos; the miners that were there; how the community lived; medical services available during the time he lived on Vancouver Island; "Thomas Crosby" one of the boats; Shantymen's Christian Association Hospital at Esperanza; Dr. R. D. McLean; Dr. Sharpe, Dr. Lewison; problems of delivering heath care; Reverend McLean's son drowned; communication and transportation; marriage in 1940; leaves Zeballos a few years later, around 1945; works as a first aid attendant at Kelly Douglas Distributors for one year; goes to work in foundry. CALL NUMBER: T2354:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Industrial first aid in BC RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-02 SUMMARY: TRACK !: Foundry business in New Westminster working for four years; active in the Industrial First Aid Attendants' Association; December 1947 went with forest first aid; history of industrial first aid; starts 1932; late 1800s first, first aid committee formed to update workers' first aid program; composed 50% each of Workers Compensation Board and St. John's first aid; problem of getting a textbook and trying to arrange a program for mass interest; instructor exams come into being; Dr. Salsbury writes first industrial first aid book; a collective text begins on the revision; joins the WCB in 1943; becomes an official examiner; new book being written under auspices of BCB; first first aid; St. John Ambulance, 1964 to 1969; basis of change reviewed; how first aid training progresses and how they are graded; 1959 first instructors course. TRACK 2: Numbers of people changed; Sloan Commission discussed; oxygen therapy becomes adopted into industrial first aid; Tysoe report discussed; this gave WCB the authority to pass rules and laws concerning industry; problems faced by the WCB in trying for form rules and get authority; new areas being used to get industrial first aid across to the public. CALL NUMBER: T2354:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Industrial first aid in BC RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discussion of the reasons for updating information for the masses and the hopes of using modern media for teaching. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Dr. Katharine Mirhady interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pediatrics RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal history; education; interest in medicine; description of University of Toronto Medical School, 1943 to 1948; how antibiotics affected training; the development of Pablum; university description continued; interning at the Royal Jubilee Hospital from 1948 to 1950; big flood in the fall and spring of 1947/48; advent of hospitalisation; how hospitals were almost empty waiting for January 1949 when hospitalisation was paid; Toronto Mental Institute at 999 Queens Street; depressing; uses of shock treatment discussed; Great Ormond St. Hospital for thee month paediatric course in the fall of 1949; went to Davenport in 1950 to work at maternity hospital for six months; midwifery discussed; France for a holiday and onto the Semmelweis Clinic in Vienna, observing and assisting with operations; 1951 back to London, Ontario, working for a obstetrician and gynecologist doing circumcisions; Vancouver in 1953. TRACK 2: Description of Vancouver; job with Savage Shoes doing research on children's feet; working afternoons at a baby clinic; moved to Richmond in 1954; got job with metropolitan health in 1955; moved back to Vancouver so could continue working at the baby clinic; viewpoints of need for family life education; some discussion of what the school board is doing right now; handicapped children's needs; English needed as a second language by 33% of elementary students.