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Doris Mary Pack interview

CALL NUMBER: T1978:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-12-22 SUMMARY: Track 1: Early personal background; beginning of Spastic Society leading to CARS (Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society) early history. TRACK 2: The problems CARS faced in getting trained staff, equipment and support; Mr. Green, Alberni, quack ANR tonic; treatment of arthritis; different supporters around BC; Banff Centre for Arthritis; G.F. Strong mentioned and IDH old Fairview Pavilion; lack of hospital beds; funding problems; research discussed; Rufus Gibbs Lodge; building of CARS centre; volunteers discussed; the centre's uses; funding problems; bluebird symbol; memorable moments; Haida Indian survey houses.;

CALL NUMBER: T1978:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1975-12-22?] SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.];

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.

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.

Doris Mellish interview

CALL NUMBER: T1988:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Doris Mellish, General Medicine, Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; nurses training and early job experiences; life on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island; health care on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island; involvement with the Vancouver Health League; mental health; amalgamation of city health and school health; start of Mental Health committee; description of Parent Teachers Association; parent education courses. TRACK 2: ; Description of courses; formation of Vancouver Health League and the Community Chest; Council of Social Agencies; smallpox epidemics of 1919 and 1932; vaccinations for small pox; school vaccination; Cancer Foundation; BC Cancer Society; Tranquille. CALL NUMBER: T1988:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Doris Mellish, General Medicine, Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Community program takeover by government; choosing members of family service organisations; payment for services by government; availability of services throughout BC; care of aged; nutrition; results of Conference of Aged; law resulting from the study of facilities; nutrition in Vancouver; fluoridation. TRACK 2: Fluoridation; water pollution; registry of disabled children; handicapped aids; building codes for handicapped; residential treatment for disturbed children. CALL NUMBER: T1988:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Doris Mellish, General Medicine, Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Vancouver Health League; mental health; house for residential treatment; mentally retarded; formation of BC Mental Health Association; volunteers for mental health centres; preventorium; Sunnyhill; formation of Victoria Order of Nurses; industrial health in Vancouver; Community Chest organisations. TRACK 2: Community Chest; changes and budget deficits; opinions of resource boards; Community Chest; future.

Doug McKenzie interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tuberculosis Control PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; coming to Vancouver; starting work in tuberculosis; treatment of TB; costs of treatment of TB; case finding and the incidence among various groups; deaths from TB; discussion of facilities at the Willow Chest Centre in Vancouver; changes in the treatment of TB; closing of Tranquille Sanatorium; financing treatments; patients attitudes toward treatment. TRACK 2: Dr. Mackenzie's responsibilities at Willow Chest Centre; expectations for treatment and prevention.

Julius Caesar Grimson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): General practice in BC PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Description of early farming life in Alberta; elementary education at Sylvan Lake; high school in Red Deer; interest in medicine; attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton; first class that graduated in medicine in 1925; description of some of the classes; internship in Edmonton and then at Vancouver General Hospital; graduated in 19265; worked for one year with Dr. Walsh in general practice in Vancouver; bought a practice from Dr. Alvin in Ladner, 1927 to 1939; what rural practice was like; house calls; lots of fractures, maternity, lacerations; improvised stretcher in his car; effects of the Depression on his practice; payment in food rather than money; post-graduate work in Chicago and New York; practicing in Vancouver as a G.P.; decided he liked people too much to become a surgeon; Cook County Hospital and how he enjoyed these places; description of his office at 925 West Georgia; some interesting cases. TRACK 2: Continued description of some interesting cases; mention of obstetrician Dr. Will Burnett; comments on the Leboyer method of childbirth; midwifery's legal status; changes in medicine; antibiotics; surgery and TB; pneumonia; changes in medicine, mainly in interpersonal patient/doctor relationship; the advent of more specialised training; doctors today have a better study.

Arun Garg interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC medical school RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arun Garg, a third-year meical student at UBC, discusses: birth in India; PhD in bio-chemistry; childhood desire to be a doctor; drop outs; student motivations; clinical versus basic sciences; pre-requisites; health care a teaching; hospital standards; socialised medicine; school interviews; length of school year; first year feelings. TRACK 2: Women in medicine; ethnic groups; introduction of patient to first year; teaching technique; anatomy; workload; undergrad organisation; cadavers; electives; fourth year clerkship; senior clerkship; finance; fees; extra educational services.

Sister Mary Murphy interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Medical missionary work RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Report on history of St. Vincent's; 1939, Sister Mary Ruth founds 103-bed hospital; member Order of Sisters of Charity of St. John; 1939, Archbishop William Duke, founder of order; 1939 to 1957, directorship of hospital by Sister Mary Ruth; personnel of the hospital; O.B.E. awarded; liaison with eastern Canada; Catholic Church in the community; interview;, the church, Archbishop Carney, liaison, Catholic Hospital Association; BC conference; 1975, 300 beds at the hospital, 10% Catholic; care in hospital; sisters as nurses; advantages of Catholic hospital; healing and faith; holistic approach; hope; dealing with death. TRACK 2: Catholic hospital and the welfare state, cost of original hospital wing; others; Grace Hospital; Dr. Donald Watt and the United Church; 1975 new wing; government; future; equity; health teamwork; Sister Marion MacDonald, administrator from 1957 to the present; Dr. Roy Black. medical director; other directors; unionization of hospital; interns; how sisters became nursing sisters; her daily routine; doctors payment.

Robert Herbison interview

CALL NUMBER: T2365:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health inspector, 1943-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; arrival in BC in 1919; early education and effects of the Depression; interest in health inspection; history of provincial organization; course description; examinations,; and certification in 1942; description of city health department in 1943; staff; location and jurisdiction; involvement in the Second World War; tropical medicine studies; health inspection duties; DDT experiments and demobilization in 1946; return to Vancouver, rat and mouse control by-laws, plague survey; education and baiting program and the work in city dumps. TRACK 2: Concluding information; on the city dumps; pest control program; cockroaches, mosquitoes, bats, raccoons, field mice and commercial controllers; communicable disease control; quarantine office; common diseases and placard description; enforcing and involvement in TB and VD control; some information about a health officer's role in the tidy by-law and in swimming pool regulations and problems.;

CALL NUMBER: T2365:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Regulation of public swimming pools, tide water pools, restrictions and closing of facilities; food inspection in Vancouver; domestic chickens and pigs; butcher shops, type of control; boarding house by-laws, and experiences in the West End of Vancouver and in the Skid Road areas; the problem of foreshore shacks; their location, description, problem and demolition; the Greater Vancouver Health League and the BC Safety Council; a description of the organization, growth and changes; Herbison's involvement in the Home and Family Safety Section from 1953. TRACK 2: Continued involvement in the Safety Council and work with bicycle and babysitting information and traffic studies; trends in health inspection politics; changes and improvement and developments in health care programs and the problem of duplication; the difference between city and provincial health inspections.;

George Black interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): CPR Extended Health Benefits Association of BC RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal history; 1932, started with the CPR in Winnipeg; 44 years with CPR at time of retirement. Moved to BC in 1951; he was on the committee for twenty years and on the board for the last five; birth of CPEMA in 1914; pioneer in field of prepaid medial care; services offered; membership; ended in 1970 to join government health plan; in 1972, CPEHBA of BC Plan changed name; started to cover other benefits unpaid for by the government plan; finances; staff; board meetings, and the constitution, which Mr. Black wrote. [TRACK 2: blank.];

Beverly Hopkins interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mental Hygiene Division : early years, 1948-1954 RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; education; psychology graduate from UBC in 1948; joined Mental Hygiene Division in 1948; description of staff; Dr. Gundry; interest in mental health; clinical set up; educational functions; work in well-baby clinics; relationship with Public Health Nurse; counselling; publications and flimsies; training at Toronto Sick Children's Hospital in play therapy and speech therapy; descriptions; various testing guides; work in schools; referrals; PTA; concern for 7-12 year olds; relationship with provincial organisations and other community groups. TRACK 2: Community services; special facilities for the emotionally handicapped; community work in PTA and at UBC, Clinical role of the psychologist: the set-up, tests, counselling, conferences, and public health follow-up. Ideas about mental health in the early years; Vancouver the provincial leader. Growth of Mental Hygiene Division, staff, information, acceptance and awareness of problem. Summary: results of work; publications for reference.

Lenore Patterson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Co-ordinator of Health Care Services, Vancouver Resources Board RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Background; brief career as a dietitian here and in UK; involvement in dental care; came to Vancouver and became a nutritionist with Catholic Child Care; last year, 1975, became the head of dietetics in the Vancouver Resources Board. Health care as it was before integration last year; decentralisation (see Foulkes Report) responsible for reorganisation of social services; mandate of Resources Board; 14 local offices and 5 special offices; Mincome delivered at Dunsmuir Street office; advent of resources boards, and their disbandment; definition of health care according to resource boards, defined by programs: old people's care and children. Staff of specialists in psychiatry department, to help children; work closely with all community resources; public health nurses' duties. Adult; care resource homes: Taylor Manor and Kinna Mair. Nutritionists help recipients and community groups to budget food and balance with goodness; also help baby home. Children in care of the Resources Board present with a variety of health problems. One medical clinic under Resources Board; one full-time physician and a part-time pediatrician. Dental health arranged. Post-partum group handles new mothers with problems; program for counseling these women. Types of problems handled. Men's group started. Child abuse dealt with. TRACK 2: Other programs of Resources board: nutrition program for healthy babies; drug and alcohol abuse an ongoing problem. Taylor Manor, for adults with mental and physical problems who are not able to function in the community, and are not expected to get into the community; 894 new contacts in 1974 under the psychiatric counseling. Taylor Manor has 58 beds and a waiting list; government pays for all. Per diem rate for five levels of care, set by government. Relations with other community health services. More involvement with Attorney-General's Department hoped for. Future of Resources Board.

John Cumming interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A social psychiatric overview of Vancouver RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-02-10 SUMMARY: The first in a series of eight seminars at UBC on the social and human problems in Vancouver, BC, Canada and the world. Chaired by Lila Quastel, a professor at the UBC School of Rehabilitative Medicine. TRACK 1: Introduction by Professor Quastel, giving Dr. John Cumming's background. Overview of child abuse, chronic mental illness, suicide, addiction. Outline of what he wishes to cover in talk. Pathology: what it is, what causes it, where it exists. Sets press release about charge cards into perspective. Definition of pathology comes from the symptoms caused by syphilis, epilepsy, pellagra. Senility or brain changes not included, as they do not fit the facts. Psychoses: diseases based on genetics and bio-chemistry. Evidence of inherited predisposition, though may not manifest in itself. Studies referred to that back up this statement. Small numbers of people involved. Equates his arthritis with psychoses. State of Vancouver services; suicide numbers and facts. TRACK 2: Definition of addiction and why Dr. Cumming believes our society is vulnerable to it. Definition of "neurotic paradox". The advantage taken by power-hungry and money-hungry to place temptation in the way of others, preying on the human condition. Lila Quastel takes over for group discussion.

Dr. Emile Therrien interview

CALL NUMBER: T2370:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Obstetrics and gynecology, 1927-1975 (tape 1) RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-02-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; education; parents; interning at VGH in 1933; the Depression years; setting up practice; West Vancouver 1935; difficulties encountered; payment method; treatments used during the mid-1930s, prior to antibiotics; public attitude towards health care in the 1930s; anecdote regarding a miscarriage in 1937. TRACK 2: Anecdotes regarding menopause, hemorrhoids, anemia patient in 1937; army career, 1942 to 1946; treatments used during the Second World War; first Canadian hospital to use penicillin in 1943; setting up practice upon return to Canada in 1946; 1948-1958, the effect of various birth control methods upon practice; social attitudes towards birth control; abortion; sexuality in the 1940s and 1950s.

CALL NUMBER: T2370:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Obstetrics and gynecology, 1927-1975 (tape 2) RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-02-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discussion of the IUD -- history, use, etc.; changes in childbirth methods over the years; discussion of newer developments in the 1970s. Development of hospitals on the North Shore, pioneered by Dr. E.A. Martin; North Vancouver General Hospital, 1928; Lions Gate Hospital, 1961; discussion of medical staff; patients today; general health attitudes. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Jeannette White interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Graduated as a nurse from Protestant General Hospital, Ottawa, in 1907; husband was a doctor, graduated from McGill in 1906; he was in the army and came to Vancouver to be demobilised; she went to England where he was stationed when he had appendicitis and stayed to nurse him; was assistant matron for the Red Cross in a British hospital for a couple of years; her husband stayed on after she came home and took course in heart work at the National Heart Hospital in London; husband's brother, Walter White, was organising medical missionaries at Lanigan, Saskatchewan and her husband went there. Practiced in Watrous, Saskatchewan, married in Lanigan; he came to Vancouver after the war; set up practice here; was first cardiologist at VGH; had his office in the medical/dental building next to the old Birk's building; later he took a public health course at the U of T; treatment then for heart patients; mainly rest; no exercise proscribed; digitalis and nitroglycerin; husband died 23 years ago of heart disease; two of three daughters trained as nurses; Grace worked in North Vancouver in public health; youngest trained at VGH and UBC for six years, degree in Applied Science in Nursing; granddaughter graduates this spring with same degree; brother-in-law was Ted McTaggart, judge of the county court of New Westminster; her father's brother practised in Ladysmith; husband's greatest concern in public health was the annual check up of the whole system; spoke to school groups about the value of eyes and teeth; her own training; three years, nine in the class; worked 7:00 to 7:00 with two hours off daily, plus one half day a week; believes she had very good training; similar to today; graduated with a mark of 98, half mark lower than the top graduate; pay was $7.00 per month plus board; husband director of School Health Services; offices on Hamilton Street; husband persuading public health people of the value of cardiology; only one who could run cardiograph machine or read result.

Doris Drinnan interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Family Planning Association of British Columbia RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-03-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal history and medical background; nurse since 1965 with the Family Planning Association; her involvement. Birth of Family Planning Clinics -- first in 1965, now 16 scattered around the province; people involved with birth [control?] and their philosophy; services; support and resistance; staff; doctors' involvement; inter-relationships; supplies; nurses; educational projects, new clinics, and their help in getting them started. [TRACK 2: blank?];

Gordon Kincade interview : [McKenty, 1976]

CALL NUMBER: T1999:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tuberculosis Control Program PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background and beginning of work with TB; TB among nurses; incidence of TB; conditions; death rate; treatment facilities at Tranquille Sanatorium; role at Tranquille; working conditions; case finding then and now. TRACK 2: TB among certain groups; traveling clinics; division of TB control; staff and facilities of traveling clinics; patients; pioneer doctors; relations with other doctors; changes; incidence of TB in the interior of the province as compared to Vancouver; role as director of traveling clinics; Director of Willow Chest Centre; responsibilities; effect of the Second World War on the TB control program.

CALL NUMBER: T1999:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.];

Flora Moffat interview

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.

Dr. Paul Jackson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Surgery RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; beginning in medicine in 1942; coming to Vancouver; St. Paul's Hospital in 1942; partnership with Dr. Appleby in 1945; Ford Hospital, Detroit in 1949; doctor/patient relationships; types of conditions treated; president of Vancouver Medical Association; chairman of St. Paul's staff; medical insurance; conclusion of interview. [TRACK 2: blank.];

Dr. Lawrence E. Ranta interview : [Oldham, 1976]

CALL NUMBER: T0247:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School : part 1 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-03-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal history; decision to become a doctor; Dr. Cuthbertson, G.P.; Dr. Oscar Ranta (older brother); sister in medicine; family anecdotes; summer work through 1929 with famous surveyor Eli Stewart; Toronto Medical School 1929, and the changing atmosphere there -- from clinical to research emphasis -- because of Dr. Banting. TRACK 2: Clinical Osler tradition vs. the new research tradition in 1930s at Toronto; class collegue Dr. Omand Solamdt; Drs. Banting and Best; Fred Banting's 1938-1939 public health course at Toronto, and as Connaught lab consultant; Dr. Ranta's work in immunology with Dr. Donald Fraser; Dr. Robert Defries; stories on Banting; effect of Banting on research in Canada, other Canadian medical researchers; polio vaccine and DR. Parker; the "swine flue" and present concern for 1977 epidemic; antibiotics (should be used "like a rifle"); disease and the public. CALL NUMBER: T0247:0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School : part 2 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Internship; Dr. Beverley Hanna, Dr. Henry Dole (classmate who became Director of Toronto General Hospital); 1936 diptheria outbreak in York County; immunization and the "smell of diptheria"; Dr. Elliot, chest diagnostician; 1971 rise in Vancouver diptheria; "pale, pasty and poisoned" (1930s term); 1936 polio, scarlet fever, "prontosil"; discovery of dyes as medicine in Germany, 1930s. TR;ACK 2: Russian medicine 1917 on, medical refugees to Canada in 1930s; Koerner brothers inject patronage to Canadian research scene; house physician, St. Michael's, 1937; Toronto school of hygiene; Dr.; Don Fraser, immunologist; Dr. Robert Defries and Dr. Claude Dolman at Connaught lab (research); 1939 move to Vancouver; Connaught lab under Dr. Dolman; provincial lab plans at UBC (halted); World War; II Connaught lab work, lab animals; monkey escapades and capture without tranquilizer darts; animal attendants, 1940s; Dr. Ronny Havers (radiologist); Dr. Bjornesson (US arthritis institute head); Dr.; Bill Kocroft (VGH bacteriologist); Dr. Dolman in 1930s -- food poisoning research; anecdotes about food poisoning in BC; salmonella identification and typing; discovery of "salmonella Vancouver" in late 1940s at Connaught lab on Hornby Street. CALL NUMBER: T0247:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School : part 3 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Idea of UBC medical school; 1946 veteran-student pressure for a medical school, pre-med assoc[iates?], the debate for/against; Dr. Ranta spoke on CBC Radio and at UBC 1946-1947; general feeling "now is the time"; UBC president Dr. N.A.M. Mackenzie, Chancellor Hamber, Dr. Sherwood Lett (supporters); internal-external need; the financial "pie" at UBC; support in Vancouver and from Vancouver; Medical Association; education committee chairman Dr. Panton; Dr. George F. Strong -- character and history, his beliefs put forward strongly in a VMA-commissioned report on possibility of a UBC medical school; Dr. Dolman's study; report by the UBC Board of Governors, 1946; Dr. Strong proposed using existing Vancouver hospitals as teaching hospitals, while Dolman advocated an on-campus hospital; controversy; full-time vs. part-time practicing medical teachers; UBC medical school's standing in Canada; extended care hospital begun on campus, 1975. TRACK 2: Extended care; 1954 U.S. report on long-term patient care; 1976 BC government decision to create 600-bed teaching hospital on campus; larger class size expected. His involvement with bacteriology, 1939-1958; the campus in World War II; the first dean, 1949, Myron Weaver; finding a good personal doctor; Peggy Service, Dean Weaver's secretary; young faculty members; psychiatric treatment in Vancouver, 1914- .

Reba Willets interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): General Medicine and Public Health PERIOD COVERED: 1906-1966 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; description of father's early pharmacy in Kelowna; early Kelowna history; interest in medicine; medical training at the University of Toronto; description of a few of the women in class; internship at Vancouver General Hospital in 1932; went to Kelowna for five years; the Depression; Indian doctor; description of practice there; decision to go into public health. TR;ACK 2: Public health course in Toronto; war wound commission in Toronto; unit director of Metropolitan Health; Director of School of Health Services; community health projects; Mary Pack; Jericho Hill School; involvement with Community Chest; polio outbreak in 1952 to 1955; Director of Metropolitan Health.

Harry Kennedy interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Involvement in VD control; Director of VD clinic, 1965 to 1976 PERIOD COVERED: 1965-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Background, education; situation of VD control in 1965; epidemic of syphilis and gonorrhea; high risk groups were in skid road and a booming BC north; identifying problems and trying to eliminate them; male homosexuality, 1965; economic and social factors affecting VD control; clinic opens 1975; outbreak continues; spreads to students and secretaries; 1975, conference identifying problems and solutions in VD control; development of clinics; treatment changes since 1965, development of new drugs; public attitudes; history of VD; public education; alternate clinics. [TRACK 2: blank?]

Evelyn Gee interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Practice and TB Treatment in BC PERIOD COVERED: 1923-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Description of Victoria Square, Ontario, where she grew up; description of education in Victoria Square and Richmond Hill; reasons why she went into medicine; description of medical training; at the University of Toronto from 1923 to 1930; courses; discrimination; summer internship at St. John's Hospital on Major Street, Toronto; summer internship at Vancouver General Hospital; 1930 to 1931, first staff ward at Vancouver General Hospital as Dr. H.H. Pitts' assistant in the lab; did general histology; description of how lab changed over the years; job hunting during the Depression; Dr. Wallace Boyd and Dr. Bede Henderson working at the Vancouver General Hospital lab; went to Tranquille in 1940; being a patient with tuberculosis; the treatment of TB; got out in 1942 and stayed to work in the sanatorium; setting up a lab and working as part of a staff of doctors; worked there until 1958. TRACK 2: Description of duties at Tranquille; how the patient care was distributed; Burris Clinic in Kamloops; building of a new lab; trip to the east to study TB labs; involvement with TB traveling diagnostic clinics -- temporarily from 1952, and full time from 1958 until retirement in 1970; discussion of the purpose of the clinics as a follow-up to patients already diagnosed with TB; effects of the Second World War on Tranquille; greatest changes in medicine; advent of antibiotics; changing attitudes of doctors; how meetings were conducted in the medical profession.

Art Hister interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pine Street Free Clinic PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Medical background; former concept of free clinic; involvement; birth pains of this concept; prominent medical problems; funding; opposition to program; necessity of clinics; changes in the structure of the clinics; interrelationships; role of nurses; staff and services offered; doctors involvement; philosophy. TRACK 2: Directions going; services needed; decision making; summary.

Ted Bain interview

CALL NUMBER: T1986:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Director of Medical Services; Veteran's Affairs, Ottawa PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Goes to Ottawa as Director of Medical Services for Veteran's Affairs. Christie Street Hospital in Toronto from 1942 to 1943; what this position involved; how Sunnybrook Hospital started and the other administrative problems of the building; in 1950, he came to Vancouver and was Chief Medical Officer of Shaughnessy Hospital. Discussion of Shaughnessy and how he worked there; meeting Princess Margaret, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip; John Diefenbaker, Louis St. Laurent; Danny Kaye and Bob Hope. TRACK 2: Discussion of the people he met; being awarded the OBE; conclusion of interview -- how medicine has changed, and prevailing attitudes in medicine today. CALL NUMBER: T1986:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. T. Bain, Veteran's Affairs and Shaughnessy Hospital PERIOD COVERED: 1898-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in 1898 in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; schooling in Scotland; came to Toronto at 14; got job at Eaton's; enlisted in 1915; discussion of army life; training and overseas; in 48th Highlanders, 15th Battalion; went overseas in 1916, Vimy Ridge and Ypres; deciding to go to University of Toronto to take medicine in 1920; description of classes and classmates; interest in public health. TRACK 2: Graduated in medicine in 1926; then interned at Toronto General Hospital; lived at Knox College at the university; entered overseas service to examine immigrants to Canada; went to England; went to William Head on Vancouver Island; quarantine station; 30 cases of smallpox; how the Depression affected him and the people he saw; description of William Head and its purpose; stayed until 1939 and went to Vancouver to take over Shaughnessy Hospital; brief history of Shaughnessy Hospital; how he got his next position.

Al Riegart interview

CALL NUMBER: T1990:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Industrial Hygiene, Workers' Compensation Board PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early personal history and education; job experience, potash mine; university education; work in radiation studies; getting involved with occupational health; Lake Athabasca radiation counts; working in Saskatchewan for twelve years; reasons for coming to BC; work with occupational health; came to BC in 1970; brief description of the workings of the Workers' Compensation Board; history of WCB; definition of industrial health; changes in policy toward industrial health; lack of industrial health training centres in Canada. TRACK 2: Description of present staff of Industrial Hygiene Department at WCB; problems industrial health deals with; silicosis; radiation; areas coming to the forefront for industrial hygiene; education of workers; chemical hazards in industry; noise pollution; research projects underway; how information of health hazards comes to the forefront; how concerned industry is with health hazards; the future of industrial hygiene. CALL NUMBER: T1990:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Industrial Hygiene, Workers' Compensation Board PERIOD COVERED: 1970-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Workers' Compensation Boards across Canada; parity between them and differences; industrial hygienists across Canada; how they share their experiences; fungus studies in BC; future of them; need for cross-country uniformity in work. [TRACK 2: blank?]

May Humphreys interview

CALL NUMBER: T2013:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Health care and social assistance PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Brief personal introduction with a description of UBC in 1928 and the decision to go into nurses training at VGH in 1929; includes a description of courses, hours, and discipline; job shortages of the Depression years and the decision to study public health at McGill from 1931 to 1933; work in Family Services in Montreal; description of service; religious divisions, problems in Griffintown; juveniles and comparison with Vancouver; job offers and the return to Vancouver; out-patients at VGH in 1936, with a description of buildings, patients, dental clinic, staff, volunteers and cup of soup; joined the City Relief Department in 1937 and describes the staff under the direction of Dr. Jack Muscovitch. TRACK 2: Social workers and the medical section with mention of responsibilities and services; effects of the Depression on people, allowances, violent attitudes; reporters; unique service of medical section; doctors services and medical histories; post-war years; employment on the Sea Wall; mental assessments; placement program growth out of VGH overcrowding; problems in regulating; lack of staff; numbers of clients; anecdotes on persuading people to enter boarding homes; atmosphere at placement institutions; night school courses; private homes, problems associated with uprooting and adjustment of elder clients. CALL NUMBER: T2013:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Health care and social assistance PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Conclusion of anecdote; role with alcoholics and Salt Spring Farm; hospital; drunk tank; need for a cleansing station; social life in boarding houses; sitting room regulations; recreation and; the role of volunteer organisations; effects of the Second World War and the reduction in staff; changes in public attitude; rise in young people on relief; increase in professional social workers; involvement in rationing and accompanying anecdote; changes in the services; dental plan; appliances; caseloads; increases in allowances; clothing allowances; nutrition services; referral resources; relationship with the Metropolitan Health Department; consultation, referrals, overlapping interests; geriatrics. TRACK 2: Gradual acceptance of geriatric centres; trends in services; attitudes of staff and public; customer orientation of building and furniture; medical aspects of the social assistance program; 60% of clients; promotes health problems; problems of single men; staff experiment living on an allowance; effects on social assistance and trend to younger people in the 1960s and 1970s; lessons learned about human nature with examples of New York and Sweden and the nature of Canadians; summary of medical program; services; abuse; payments.

Lillian Hiltz interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Development of Red Cross health care RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-19 SUMMARY: Miss L.G. Hiltz, Director of Family health, discusses: personal introduction; arrival in BC in 1954; joined Red Cross in 1964; history of the Red Cross in BC, beginning in 1900 in Victoria; in 1919, became a provincial organization; early programs in public health -- at UBC, at lighthouses, and placing eight nurses between 1920 and 1923; from 1924 to 1927, the home nursing courses were popular; described the growth of the outpost hospital program, beginning in Pouce Coupe in 1921; description of the facilities; services; subsequent additions to program; locations, financing changes; beginning of homemaker service in 1944; sick room equipment loans since 1945; description; number of items; past services; trends in programs and future developments.

Dr. Hugh Munro interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dentistry RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; moving to Vancouver; University of Toronto in 1925; setting up a practice in Vancouver; dentists advertising; "Painless" Parker; fees; patient's attitudes; Depression. Vancouver; and District Dental Society; BC Dental Association in 1943; amendments to the Dentistry Act; BC Dental Bulletin, April 1976; major changes in dentistry; changes in patient's attitudes; dental health in general. [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.

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