Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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A. Yes, and we had the sam corridor down there as we ha4 up on the
deck above where we had the wwds. Across the corridor Wrnthe food
laboratory, on the other side, on the starboard side was +other ward.
A little fat pretty girl from New Hampshire was the head urse there.
What was her name, Elliot. 7
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About how many beds were in there?
A. Well generally I woUd say about the saw, Ef'teen to !sixteen, something
like that, or twenty, I can't tell you. Anyhow I tw all these
wards could be changed from tine to time. Well now the fc/od laboratow
I will describe to you. For pmannel it would have one
doctor. He's wo~ked on the boat several smrs and hls
and a young man who is still in mdical school. This
was active in his practice in the field of insurance, ins
The two of them had to be on duty down there all the time
ings will be mde in advance by these two. The formulas
in the wads received and those in the upper deck as well
the bottle; some of those were breast fed. They had the rent constituents
of a fomaila in a vat up here on the ceiling with
kept clean and all. But the fonnulas were made up in
!They would have one barley water and one sornethhg else, whole milk and
one somthing else and something else. But they woul
easily made up. They were all ready because that was
than the others. It was fastened to a hose, a smll c
well it was mre of a cup because it didn't have an
of hose that had a pinch on it. A little instrmrnent
like a cow. Just Like milking a cow. Now these boy
They could do anything when they were out on the water.
we would just love to have them do it. They'd g&t s
with them, somebody else that liked to sing could st
went down and you wanted to do business wlth them, y
dor on the other side of the cm. So it was good.
Q. Could they sing while they were making formulas? !
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A. I guess so. Well, I how they had one song. We had ai little wo
doctor on the boat. Have I told you about her? She was skinny and er mm
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was Shagley , and she walked lib this. She was so proper. j
Q. Shmng her shoulders back and forth as she went?
A. Well, she was straightening up, yau how, and being a military .or
sorething.
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Q. Was she quite impressed with herself do you think?
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A. Well, she wanted to show dippity and so forth. Yet sh was a goad sport,
They had a son& Old Lizzy Shapley--that was her nam--1is en to E, the
queen of ny kitchen surely yout d be, of your halibut steak I would like to
par%&, oh Lizzy Shapely corn do the cooking for me. An she'd la-,
(chuckles) and walk on.