Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

never was in it, but our dining room was at the end. ~
Q. At the very end?
A. No, I think the kitchen was at the very end, then the dining roqn.
Now I shall go back to the entrance, where I entered. TI the rl*tht/
hand side, this is the side we see, is what they called aitreatment porn.
That is where we took the babies when they needed to ha~,a high ene ,
a wmhing out. !they would, use what is used for an adult ptheter, $n
they ~mved the urine from the kidney.
Q. So it's just a little thy tube. 1
A. !he babies are tiny too, you see.
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Q. Would this be a special solution you would use? 1
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A. Well no, they would use a saline solution. That's a1 the salt that
the water will take you me, or somtlms less mybe it w uld be a percentage
of that, if you needed a hi@ enema, that's where
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it m d be taken.
Q. Was this a quite comn form of treatment?
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A. Well, fairly comon then, I don't know what they ing nowadays.
Q. Why did you get all these constipated babies? I
A. Well, sorcletims they weren't constipated. S011~3tims l/'b was, or wstly
it was diarrea and it was washed out. It had to be clean., I was tr$ing
to think of that nice doctor who was a teacher at the rre
two redical schools there, Hamard and (pause)--I canlt
a teacher, this one nice doctor I speak of. J3e sald abo
of'ten give babies lactose water, lactose being a sugar,
lactose. He said the reason for this is, the inf'ection like an insect.
It will eat the meat but let the s m alone, but if yo
sugar, they let the mat alone. Thatls the b+ies inte
stomach. We had stomach cases, too, where .the entrance
partially closed, and there would be vodtlng, vomiti
down. So they had a way of expanding that by the ri
Q. Was there an operating room on the boat?
A. Yes, this treatmnt room also had a table where it co d be. Nw we
won't get to this until we gt on the bobtom deck. Well v are on the
bottom deck. In here rL@t beyond the treatmnt room is I at we called
the food laboratory.
&. Now this is about underneath that row of awniw up or
Is that comct?
the top- dG.ck?
A. I guess, yes I think so yes.
Q. And this was called the fo
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laboratory?
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