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.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Workers' Compensation Board of BC history : silicosis PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1974 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978-03-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Kincade's medical training and experience. Provincial Health Department agrees to have traveling tuberculosis clinic examine and certify miners. Symptoms and disability due to silicosis. Board certification policies. Work sources of silicosis. Description of conditions of traveling clinic. Medical Referee responsibilities. Measuring disability. difference between pathological and statutory silicosis. Cure of TB removes much of silicosis problem. Silicosis problem reduced through dust control Origins of aluminum dust therapy. Examination of other lung diseases. TRACK 2: Dr. Vrooman's contribution. Board medical directors discussed. E.S.H. Winn an excellent chairman. Trend toward allowance of claims on "possibility".

SUMMARY: Radio program with talk "The Man with a Golden Arm", by Richard Diespecker, announcer, about: C. Wesley Prowd, Vancouver physician -- his medical career, his life, and cancer research. Prowd ran the X-Ray and Radium Department at St. Paul's Hospital for four decades.

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.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Harold Wrinch recalls Dr. Horace C. Wrinch, medical pioneer and missionary, 1899-1939 PERIOD COVERED: 1866-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: Harold Wrinch talks about his medical missionary father, Dr. Horace Wrinch. In 1899, Dr. Wrinch came to the Hazelton area of B.C., where he established a large medical practice. Much of the tape is devoted to the story of how Dr. Wrinch came to build the hospital at Hazelton, and details about the operation of the hospital. (End of 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?]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tuberculosis control RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; coming to Vancouver, interning at Vancouver General Hospital in 1927; becoming Second Assistant Superintendent in 1930; the Depression; becoming First Assistant Superintendent in 1932; first interest in tuberculosis; change to Tranquille Sanatorium in 1937; condition there, patients' attitudes, treatments. TRACK 2: Effects of the Second World War on Tranquille; opening Pearson Hospital, changes in treatment of tuberculosis from 1952 to 1970; changes in facilities from 1952 to 1970.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): "The Willing Horse" RECORDED: Sicamous (B.C.), 1975-04-14 SUMMARY: Reasons for coming to Revelstoke; personal information; Queen Victoria Hospital; founding of the Revelstoke and District Historical Association; history of the snowmobile donated to the museum; forming of the Revelstoke Development Association; more on the Revelstoke and District Historical Association.

This series consists of a variety of records related to hospitals, including voucher books; records of salaries; and an index to hospitals, with correspondence relating to the disbursement of grants to hospitals under the terms of the Hospital Act, 1902.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Arlene Craig, Marguerite Robertson and Vera Wingen RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bob Bossin, Arlene Craig, Marguerite Robertson, and Vera Wingen discuss their memories of the Tofino-Clayoquot area in the early twentieth century. Among other things, Vera Wingen describes: Dr. Dixson's medical techniques, his willingness to help. Marguerite Robertson recounts: first experiences in medical procedures -- ruptured appendix of Norman Allen, gangrenous appendix of Felix Tom; anecdote about Premier Pattullo's visit prior to an election; Brinkman, local watchman; Japanese community, Native community; flying trapeze anecdote.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Sankey describes her early life in Kamloops, where her father was a doctor. His name was Dr. Simon John Tunstall, and he later practised in Vancouver; his office on Cordova Street was near the fruit market. He was a general practitioner and worked out of St. Paul's Hospital. Her own education under Miss Gordon, a private tutor from England, who founded what is now Crofton House Girls School. Her health, her daily routine, her schooling in Paris. The family home on Robson Street was large and had a tennis court; it eventually became a hospital. Her father's practice; did no surgery, held office hours all day, on call at night; delivered many babies; worked a lot at St. Paul's. How she feels about living in a retirement lodge. [TRACK 2: blank?]

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): Lieutenant Governor Walter S. Owen addresses the Victoria Medical Society RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-12-05 SUMMARY: Lieutenant Governor Walter S. Owen addresses the annual dinner of the Victoria Medical Society, December 5, 1975. Introduction by Dr. Scott Wallace.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Lillian Green discusses her husband, Dr. Frank Green, who worked on Crowsnest Pass; the typhoid outbreak in Cranbrook; performing medical services for several lumber companies. Mrs. Green's father was an unsuccessful partner in a private bank. Mrs. Green's father, Otis Staples, built a lumber mill near Cranbrook; she married in 1905. She describes Cranbrook's first hospital in 1904. TRACK 2: Green continues by discussing Sullivan Mine operating before it was sold; why the town always turned out for theatrical and musical companies; the Cranbrook to Vancouver route, which required switching boats and trains seven times; the mines keeping the businesses in Cranbrook alive; and Staples Mill going out of business after WWI.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of Mrs. Nellie Baker PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1920 RECORDED: Quesnel (B.C.), [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Nellie Baker of Quesnel talks with Bjorn Bjornson about some of her experiences. Childhood on father's ranch near Ashcroft. Married 1907 [sic]. Comments on Mormons of Salt Lake City. Experiences with husband, a doctor in the Quesnel area. Horse racing. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0376:0001 RECORDED: Quesnel (B.C.), 1964-07-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Nellie Baker talks about her experiences in the Cache Creek, Ashcroft and Quesnel area, 1890 to 1910. Mrs. Baker speaks about her father coming to BC in 1864 and the story of her father and mother coming to Chilcotin in 1884 before buying Bonaparte Ranch near Cache Creek, where Nelly was born. She describes activity along the Cariboo Road; wagons, stages, stopping places and drivers. She speaks about life at the Cache Creek boarding school and her relations with the native children.

TRACK 2: She moved to a ranch between Spences Bridge and Ashcroft where she used to capture wild horses. She discusses the Little Mountain slide at Spences Bridge as well as the sheep and cattle on her father's ranch. She discusses her life after she was married in Ashcroft, as well as pack trains, memories of the famous packer Jean Caux ("Cataline"), Quesnel in 1910, and activity in the area. She mentions that her husband was a doctor.

CALL NUMBER: T0376:0002 RECORDED: Quesnel (B.C.), 1964-07-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Baker discusses her traveling and her experiences working with her husband in the area west of Quesnel. She describes the social life and recreation of Wells and Barkerville; working outdoors, a story about eating wild parsnips, and rattlesnakes. She comments on bars and liquor and her upbringing and adventures on her father's ranch near Ashcroft. She talks about her marriage in 1907, the Mormons in Salt Lake City, more experiences with her husband, and horse racing. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0511:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of Vancouver General Hospital since 1904 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early life in Vancouver. Parents' interest in community activities, ca. 1904. Description of VGH, ca. 1910. Hospital Board meetings. The Veteran's Hospital, 1918. Construction problems at VGH;. Activities of the Women's Auxiliary. Education of O.W. Banfield. Description of the UBC facilities, ca. 1908. McGill University association with UBC. TRACK 2: Extra-curricular activities at UBC, 19;19-22. Description of the Hospital Campus. Banfield appointment to the VGH Hospital Board. Hospital problems during 1940s. Role of various aldermen on the Hospital Board. Influence of the Medical Board on hospital policy, 1940-55. CALL NUMBER: T0511:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Administration of the Hospital Board and VGH Medical Facilities RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The Blue Cross Hospital Insurance program. Effects of the Blue Cross system on the VGH, 1942-48. Mr. L. Hickernell as VGH Chief Administrator. The VGH Board during 1940s. Bequests and donations to the VGH, 1940-55. VGH association with the UBC Medical facility, ca. 1948. VGH medical staff involvement with UBC Medical School. Creation of the Children's Hospital. TRACK 2: The problem of location for the Children's Hospital, ca. 1945-50. Vancouver city contributions to the VGH, 1940-60. Relations between VGH and St. Paul's Hospital. Construction programs at the VGH. Construction of the Nurse's Residence. Function of the Building Committee. CALL NUMBER: T0511:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Planning and function of the VGH, 1948-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The work of Mr. Leon Hickernell as Executive Director of the VGH. VGH development of facilities. VGH organization of departments. The problem of growth at VGH. The continuing problem of hospital finances. Race relations at VGH. The Medical Board and the VGH Board of Trustees, 1955. Dr. Ranta joins the VGH, 1955. Planning the Centennial Pavilion. TRACK 2: The official meetings of the Building Committee. Designing VGH as a provincial health centre. Problem of provincial government recognition for VGH as an acute care facility. The work of the Executive Committee during the tenure of Mr. Leon Hickernell. Partisan politics at the Board level. CALL NUMBER: T0511:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The job of Hospital Administrator at the VGH RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Choosing the Hospital Board Chairman, 1957. Duties of the Board Chairman. Duties of the Medical Board and the Board of Trustees. Changes in the role of the Executive Chairman. Provincial government obstruction of the VGH development plans. Banfield's relationship with Eric Martin. Board relations with the Medical staff. Board handling of Public Relations. Board relations with the mass media. TRACK 2: Development of the University Hospital. Development of the Centennial Pavilion. The powers of the Hospital Board Chairman. Conducting Annual Board meetings. Politics at the Hospital Board level. The retirement of Mr. L. Hickernell of the VGH. Dr. L.E. Ranta's position in the VGH administration. Early departmentalization of the VGH. Duties of the Director of Nursing. CALL NUMBER: T0511:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Past Chairmen of the VGH Board of Trustees RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George Miller, chairman of the VGH Board. Characterizations of Mr. Des Brisay and Mr. Dal Grauer. Description of Mr. Sandy Wright. Chairman Larry B. Jack. Chairman William Street. Characterization of Treasurer Tom Dickson. Various Chairmen of the VGH Medical Board. Dr. Gilles, Dr. G.F. Strong, Dr. Hodgins, the Hamilton Report. TRACK 2: Meetings between the VGH Medical Board and the Board of Trustees. Final impressions on the work with the VGH Board. (End of interview)

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.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. Richard Foulkes RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Dr. Richard Foulkes is interviewed about his medical career, and mental health care in British Columbia. Dr. Foulkes was the director of the Health Security Program Project, which published a report entitled "Health Security for British Columbians" (1973).

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.];