CALL NUMBER: T1984:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health : industrial, municipal, provincial PERIOD COVERED: 1889-1925 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Menzies talks about his early childhood on Pender Island and various jobs in the sawmill and on the farm; early education and entrance into Westminster Hall, Vancouver, and acceptance into the Manitoba Medical College in 1913; description of the medical program; the outbreak of the First World War; problems of finance; recruitment into the 12th Field Ambulance in 1915 and lead-in to wartime experiences; overseas experiences from 1916, including battle conditions and medic responsibilities in Ypres, Amiens, Somme and Grand Serviens. TRACK 2: The return home in March 1919; the problems of leaving England and the trans-Atlantic trip, discussed in some detail; the return to medical school; Dr. Tisdall and the apprenticeship in the summer of 1919; Dr. Menzies completed his final fifth year in 1920 and passed the medical counsel exams; a brief description of his internship at VGH follows; in October of 1921, Dr. Menzies became staff doctor at Britannia Mines; the mine cave in that occurred two days later.

CALL NUMBER: T1984:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health : Dr. A.R. Menzies PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1936 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Menzies goes into some detail about his life at Britannia Mine; flood in 1921 is the major topic, including a description of the disaster and medical problems; a brief description of the main town site and mountain camp and the common injuries and first aid practice; Dr. Menzies' role as Provincial Health Inspector and experience with communicable diseases such as STDs, smallpox and scarlet fever. TRACK 2: The Britannia experience is ended with Dr. Menzies resignation over a conflict of interest; he mentions again the relationships and prevalent accidents; his return to Vancouver; and work in the laboratories of VGH. Dr. Menzies went to U of T School of Hygiene in 1930, under a fellowship, and returned to Vancouver the following year. In 1931, Menzies became Provincial Epidemiologist; his role in such issues as typhoid control, sanitation and food handling.

CALL NUMBER: T1984:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health : Dr. A.R. Menzies PERIOD COVERED: 1936-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The issues involved in public health dentistry, such as fluoridation. Vision and hearing tests in schools were also part of the program. Dr. Menzies relates his most embarrassing situation involving a co-ed student at UBC. In summary, Dr. Menzies discusses the advantages and disadvantages of being involved in public health service. TRACK 2: In 1936, Dr. Menzies joined the Metro Health Committee. He gives a description of its organisation and his first assignments; a discussion of the personnel and programs in the schools and baby clinics; Unit #1 and the issues of food handling and the kindergarten clinic; contact with communicable diseases such as polio; facilities for the handicapped. Dr. Menzies gives a description of the locations of the health units from 1936 to 1959. In 1959, Dr. Menzies became Senior Medical Health Officer. He describes his responsibilities, and discusses changes in the health department, personnel, offices and services.

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.

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.]

CALL NUMBER: T0521:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. F.P. Patterson, Head of Orthopedics, UBC Faculty of Medicine at VGH PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-09-12 SUMMARY: Dr. F.P. Patterson: orthopedic surgeon, Vancouver General Hospital, 1945 to date of interview. VGH after WW II. The field of orthopedics at VGH after WWII. The establishment of the University of British Columbia Medical School and the various changes brought about by its establishment. The administration of VGH in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Head of Orthopedics, 1950 and building a new university department in medicine. The relationship of UBC and VGH over the Faculty of Medicine. Changes at VGH caused by the Medical School. The medical board and Board of Trustees in the 1950s.;

CALL NUMBER: T0521:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Development of health care, Vancouver General Hospital PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-09-19 SUMMARY: Dr. F.P. Patterson: Discussion of the operation of Vancouver General Hospital services and the privileges of doctors in the 1950s and 1960s. Problems with bed allocation. Dr. John F. McCreery, Dean of Medicine. The operation of the medical school. UBC Health Science Centre and its concept. Competition between UBC and VGH. Discussion of hospital administration. Problems during this period with the physical plant and hospital facilities. Discussion of the achievements of VGH -- cardiac facility, renal failure unit, physical medicine and occupation therapy, Canadian Arthritic Centre. Discussion of the G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre.;

CALL NUMBER: T0521:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vancouver General Hospital in the 1960s PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-09-24 SUMMARY: Dr. F.P. Patterson: His role as Chairman of the Medical Board of VGH. Concept of the Medical Board. Description of Leon Hickernell and George Ruddick, Executive Directors. Impact of the Agnew-Peckam Report on VGH. Morale at VGH. Size of VGH and the variety of services offered. Care of patients and training at VGH. Development of orthopedics in British Columbia. Importance of field after WW II. (End of 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.

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- .

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.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): An early specialist in internal medicine PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-10 SUMMARY: Early background; education; McGill College of BC from 1911 to 1912; McGill University, 1912; discussion of medical training differences, then and now; humorous anecdote regarding F.J. Shepard, anatomy professor, McGill University, 1912; enlistment in the army in 1914; war experiences; discussion of work as a medical officer from 1917 to 1919; influenza epidemic, 1917; interning at VGH in 1920; fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in 1920; anecdote regarding the early days of the clinic; starting practice in Vancouver in 1930; the Depression; war breaks out in 1939; Dr. DesBrisay relates army career; in charge of medicine, Shaughnessy Hospital after the war; discussion about effects of antibiotics such as penicillin; Dr. DesBrisay relates two anecdotes regarding penicillin; changes noticed over the years; closing comments regarding his rewarding career in medicine.

CALL NUMBER: T1982:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: Personal background; experience in RCAF ration research; pediatrician in freshly updated areas; practice and volunteer teaching of pediatrics in Toronto 1946 to 1951; history of pediatrics, nutrition; specialty care for mothers; teaching of pediatrics in the last 25 years; baby boom; the pill; current fading of pediatrician; western Canada practice; late development; Vancouver child care; Canadian; universities and paediatrics; access to hospitals in Vancouver; government policy; government subsidies for medical training, hospitals. CALL NUMBER: T1982:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dearth of pediatricians; Dr. McCreary's text book on pediatrics; prenatal clinics; non-violent delivery; University of Toronto to 1951; children's hospitals; paradox of pediatricians; treating 18-year-old women; adolescents; screening of medical students; what sort of people are they; expectations; wartime work as a pediatrician in Holland; in the front lines on duty. TRACK 2: Social aspects of pediatrics; researchers at UBC; UBC's standing as a medical school; role of medical services; nursing in Vancouver. CALL NUMBER: T1982:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Medical practice and hospitals; need for Government distribution of doctors in Canada; student requirements; Flexner Report on US medical schools; outline of history of medical schools in North America and Europe. Specialisation of medical teaching, practice; student course load; anecdote; baby rash; VD; patient's attitudes toward student examinations. TRACK 2: Cadavers at UBC; autopsies; unclaimed bodies; medical tradition; inclusion of the family physician in training; reducing the number of specialists; Association of Medical Colleges; socialised medicine; finance of doctors; doctor's practice. CALL NUMBER: T1982:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: History of UBC Medical School; its formation; US influence on Canadian medical education; Dr. Wesbrook; Dr. MacKenzie; advisory committee; Dr. Claude Dollman's report; full and part time teachers; Dr. Myron Weaver, first medical school dean; medical building 1950; department heads; Dr. William Boyd; pediatrics at VGH; British-American medical training; accreditation. TRACK 2: Influence on Canadian medical training; reaction of Vancouver doctors and academics at UBC to medical school; responsibilities of school; various deans until his own appointment as Dean in 1959; role of dean; continuing education. CALL NUMBER: T1982:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1959-1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Becomes dean in 1959; long range planning group; 1957 federal legislation paying cost of acute care results in overemphasis of hospitals on medical education; clinical health care units; campus storefront on Heather Street; 1961 onwards, need for continuing education in medicine; percentage of interested doctors, courses given from all departments throughout BC; Department of Continuing Education created in 1960 emphasizing primary health care; the family doctor; US paramedics; choice of health careers by students; coordination of health sciences; centre established; departmental rivalry; medical care plans; people motivation not money; 1964, coordinator's job formalised. TRACK 2: The squeeze -- doing both jobs, as dean and coordinator; resigned as dean in 1968.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Provincial Health RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in 1926 in Northern Ireland; early schooling and university at Queen's in Belfast; why he got into medicine; liked orthopaedics; interned at Queen's University Hospital, Royal Victoria, Belfast. Went to aircraft company after a residency, general rotating, worked at Short Brothers for two years in industrial medicine; new field worked with Dr. Smiley; what duties were his as industrial health officer; goes to work with the Slough Industrial Health services outside London, 1953-55; Dr. Eager started this program; comes to BC in 1955 and takes his degree then joins the provincial health department and goes to work in Prince Rupert for a year; changes from England and Ireland in medicine; spends three months at Tranquille, and then back to Toronto for Diploma of Public Health in 1957-58; did Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons certificate in November 1958; goes to provincial health, North Fraser Valley Health Unit; responsible for environmental health, communicable disease control; 1959-61, Director of Public Health/Occupational Health for the City of Vancouver; duties. Worked for American boards in occupational medicine; goes back to provincial health as director of Occupational Health; his definition of occupational medicine; the programs and progress of the bureau: 1962-72, Dr. John Mackenzie was the first assistant director; director of special health services in 1973; study of alcoholism in industry. TRACK 2:Alcoholism in industry, continued; why alcoholism is so prevalent; coming area of drug rehabilitation; assessments concerning asbestosis; silicosis, mercury poisoning, environmental pollution, noise pollution and radiation; unions' reaction to occupational health department. Environmental pollution. Physical fitness programs for government employees. Health hazard appraisals.

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.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC medical school RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Childhood; UBC medical school, 1955 to 1959; motivation to medicine; attitudes of medical students; role of clinicians; preceptorship; family practice residencies; personal general practitioner practice; general practitioners as social workers; family medicine; episodic versus continuing health care; American family practice; Canadian family practice; the British general practitioner; Canadian medical schools and family medicine; specialization; graduates into family medicine; College of Family Physicians; general practice. TRACK 2: Certification exam in 1968; movement to create Department of Family Medicine from present Division of Family Medicine in the Department of Epidemiology; 1975-76 progress; procedure to establish a new department; current staff.

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.

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0012 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Attitude of mining families; George Simmonds; 1887 inquest; mother's story; ;transportation in the 1880s; widow; Fanny and William Bray; Protection mine; father injured in mine; William Griffith; contract mining; bathing; wash house; lamp house; immigration; father; Wales; tea;chers; telephones; Welsh choir; parent's marriage; David Evans. TRACK 2: Schooling; Hunt family; Sunday school; sea cadet; merchants; Fraser Street; podiatry school; pays mother's mortgage; Harvard m;edical school; hitchhiking.;

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0013 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Internship; Nanaimo doctors; Norman Bethune; Courts wife; marriage; first child; transporting Chinese across Canada; travel from Vancouver to Nanaimo; medical practice in Nanaimo; Indians bui;ld sailing canoe; Indians sell blackberries; Indian helper; Indian feast; Indian longhouse; Indian mourning; mine doctor; enlists; army doctor; builds log house; Vancouver doctor; lives in Hotel Vanco;uver; Pest House; patients pay in kind; sailor; buys Hammond Bay Road house; sells Harmac property; Nanaimo booster. [TRACK 2: blank.];

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.

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.