Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
that is the hospital that the doctors were working in, "d~blg the - --
epidemic [cholera] and were gmatly appreciated. A luncheon was given for
them by the Chinese offlcial and they Were decorated with Chinese mews.
The hospital is a cottaget'. . .
Q. Now they got Chinese medals?
A. Yes.
Q. But you got a Russian mdal?
A. Yes, a Russian mdal. Well, that ?s what it s suppose@ to be, but I
haven't seen it. And the others got the notice, too. They didn't st
them. They said, tlOh, you are going to get it. "
Q. So both governments were decorating you? Both the Rugsian and me
Chinese govemnts? Is that right?
A. Well, the different places. MFne was done in Vladivwtok. But of course,
sow officials who are in an area--but this big Chinese actor, this outstanding
m, well, it appears that he came on accomt or the epidedc. And
he was skillful and knew what to do and so on. Now let's see. It was the
Chinese medals. I don1 t remerrber that I ever heard of it, them getthg
them ab Harbb. "The hospital is a cottage place. Poor p?acilities, other
than a @pod many pathological specimns. Mrs. Chung," ngu she was the wife
of ons-of those doctors, Dr. Chung, "is quite interest- being the offspring
of an Ehglishman and Japanese woman. She has a elpmdr~g srfile, speas
perfect Ehglish and flits about calling her husband, Sir John. She also is
a Canbrim graduate. I had a shock In seeing five typhcdd patients shut
off in one building, all on wooden beds without mttressw ." Well, I saw
those in the horns when I went with a woman doctor RLss @an Helen Connelly
to visit in China. An American woman, who was wo&hg wi$h the Chinese in
their horns. She visited them in their homes. Tney weq sick.
Q. What could they do for typhoid then? What was the tqeatnmt?
A. Well, the treatment mstly, was the same as here, where you just treated
the symptom. Tne bowel was terrib3y disturbed and they had to give healing
enem. I don't know what they did. Now I don't rewrrber over there,
but you'd bathe them for their tempemtures, and they ha4 som medication,
but not too much. They were hard up for that. They weq there witbout getting
any care in the Russian hospital$. Tne rmhers of $he invalid
h
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attend them in the hospital, but are pot constantly with the patien . 'We
did a little shopping in Chinatown. Af'ter noon I had a qhampoo by Frenchm,"
not the fat one, "and marcel Fave by a C"ninm. Okay, esp cially
the wave. Went to tea at RRS Hospital. I' What did I say that was? '
Q. You said it was Railroad Service.
A. Yes, that's flat. "Then to ladies finals at tennis club," now here
you are, "where I met several nice ArrY3rLcans, Ehglish an b Russians, mng
them Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Pam, secre- to a corporatio$ holding 15,000