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Robert Herbison interview
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1976-03-22 [date recorded] (Creation)
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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.;
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West Coast Medical Historical Society Inc., 1976
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Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-138.
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Accession number(s): T2365
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speaker: Robert Herbison, interviewer: Beverly A. MacPherson