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Grace Donald interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): VD control, 1943 to 1975 PERIOD COVERED: 1929-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early childhood; education; training at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in 1929; description of the Laurel Street Clinic in 1943; VD treatments used prior to 1947, penicillin, malaria, "hotbox", society's attitudes toward venereal disease, public education; penicillin, 1947; beginning of city jail clinic; personal attitudes; dispensing penicillin in the streets in the 1960s; Oakalla Prison, Willingdon School for Girls - clinics established on a weekly basis. TRACK 2: Interest in job; Mrs. Donald's personal opinion; Vancouver leper colony discussed; discussion of transient youth in the 1960s.

Newspaper clippings and other material

  • GR-0638
  • Series
  • 1906-1908

This series consists of newspaper clippings concerning public health and the campaign to establish an institution for the treatment of tuberculosis. Includes one photograph, "Lepers at D'arcy Island".

British Columbia. Dept. of the Provincial Secretary

Glass negatives : leprosy

The file contains 23 b&w glass negatives of Chinese patients with leprosy (Hansen's disease), taken from 1922 to 1932 on D'Arcy Island and Bentinck Island. The file also has three negatives of the boat landing and cottages on Bentinck Island. The negatives show patients standing or sitting and were often taken at admission and after progression of the disease. Some of the photographs are close ups of hands, back, legs and feet. The negatives are arranged in numerical order in accordance with the list of leprosy cases.

A photocopy of a typed list of leprosy cases accompanies the negatives to provide context Each case include notes about each patient with a description of the particular photograph.

Glass slides : leprosy

The file consists of 18 b&w glass slides of Chinese patients with leprosy (Hansen's disease), taken from 1922 to 1932 on D'Arcy Island and Bentinck Island. The file also has one slide of the patient cottages on Bentinck Island. The slides were made from the related negatives and show patients standing or sitting and were often taken at admission and after progression of the disease. Some of the photographs are close ups of hands, back, legs and feet. The slides are arranged in numerical order in accordance with the list of leprosy cases, created by the Provincial Health Officer (copy stored with negatives).

Health records with regard to disease outbreaks

  • GR-2586
  • Series
  • 1924-1939

The series consists of files kept by Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Henry Esson Young, from 1924 to 1939. The files relate mostly to outbreaks of disease, including smallpox, infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis), plague, trachoma, tick paralysis, psittacosis, and leprosy. The files contain correspondence of the Provincial Health Officer with Medical Health Officers in B.C. and the U.S. Public Health Service about outbreaks of infectious disease, including the 1932 smallpox epidemic in Vancouver and recurring incidents of diphtheria at the Queen Alexandra Solarium. They also include reports relating to lab services.

British Columbia. Provincial Health Officer