Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

you see tMs curtarln.
Q. That single curtain.
A. Well, that could be mved along, you see, those are the curtains to
keep out the rain. Then you corn to the doctorst quar5t;em.
Q. Now If m down on this deck now.
A. Yes, yes I know. There is mother ward there. It's 8omthing Uke
this ward up mnt.
Q. On the second deck, yes. So there would be maybe another forty bbbies
back there?
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A. No not forty. That one ward that turns in is a sml1 r space than
In the middle, the middle is wider.
Q. So rmybe twenty?
A. Well, I'd say maybe sixteen to twenty.
Q. Now starting at the f'mnt again an this lower deck.
A. Now this front pa% down here . . .
Q. . Where the two large openings are?
A. Yes. That must have been entirely for the crew. I know &cause
the next one, two, three, four, five windows, that was
'Ihe nurses
office was there, our director of nursing sat inothere,
though. Then the resident physician--that was one of
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when we pt
Q. Now thLs is where the large openings are - on bthe--l~er. deck?
A. Yes. That is whem the board usually went in, the li
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tle walk b m
the whar? to the boat.
A. ?he gangplank yes. - 1,-don't how,- Lsay ganlgwagr at the bLbl& class all
the time because they block up the place to the kitchen. (la&ter) I go
out to get soroe cold water
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In caffae because it's too ot and too strong.
Then I say gangway, they just block up the thing. They ve big space elsewhere
they could go Lf they want to, but they say I could too.
Q. Now therets a long series of windm. +
A. Now on the move here, yes, now this 19 divided up thin@. By the
way we had a housekeeper too, for the boat. She did the
cleaning and so on. The kitchen must have been
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