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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.

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?];

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.

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.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Women's Health Collective RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-03-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Birth of the Women's Health Collective in 1971; concept; reason for; women involved in the birth, and their studying and gathering of information to prepare them for their lay clinic; present services; training of clinic staff; in 1972, moved to A Women's Place; December 1 of that year, first Canadian women's self-help clinic; spawning of the new health groups; collective formed in 1973 between three different women's health groups; projects formed; publications; 1973, society formed; funding; opposition; salary of seven full-time staff; research grants; doctors' involvement; their part in changing the attitudes towards health care; referrals; teaching medical students; patients; atmosphere; lack of knowledge among women; services other than medical; formation of a doctors directory; patients' involvement; health education groups. TRACK 2: Helping other clinics; diaphragm-fitting clinics; hopes for future funding; structure; needed services; direction; summation.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Involvement in VD control as a public health nurse PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-26 SUMMARY: Early years; nurses training at St. Paul's from 1930 to 1933; employment with Metropolitan Health Committee in 1936; tuberculosis work; smallpox; diphtheria; description of early Laurel Street Clinic, 1946; early treatments with penicillin prior to 1947; contact tracing and interviewing, 1946 to 1949; returning to VD control, 1965 to 1971; description of contact tracing methods, 1946 to 1949 and 1965 to 1971; discussion of the problem of male homosexuality in transmitting disease; reference again to returning to the clinic, 1965 to 1971; changes made by Dr. Harry Kennedy, Director of VD Control in 1965; mention of training for nurses; special courses taken by Ms. Boyd through the years; closing remarks; corrects a small error made previously in interview regarding treatments.

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.