Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
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<strong>Anna</strong> Tittm 34<br />
A. Well, you had a half a day <strong>of</strong>f duty every week and a hlEllf <strong>of</strong> Smd3Y.<br />
Q. And is that when you'd switch f'rom nzorming to nip$& d#y?<br />
A. No, it just happens when the ni&t duties coming to ar/ end for one<br />
person, mybe she's sick and they have to put another one pn. Tnen they<br />
take them <strong>of</strong>f the day duty shift.<br />
Q. They didn't work you twenty-four hours, tho&, in the! hospital, did<br />
they?<br />
A. Only when you had your obstet~ical specials.<br />
patients .<br />
Each had to special six<br />
And when I had first obstetrical case, I had to sit in the room where<br />
the patient was and wash the baby with the superintendent pf nurses. She<br />
always was present at births, watching. She sald (mimics )i "Oh rw, you've<br />
bathed a baby before." And I looked up kind <strong>of</strong> guiltily q d I said, "Yes,<br />
I did. "<br />
Q. You'd bathed the baby before?<br />
A. I had bathed a baby before. That was nephew, you se, that I quit<br />
school for.<br />
Q. Were there many obstetricdl cases at that time? Weredlt more babies<br />
born in the horn?<br />
A. Well, we had an obstetrical departmnt <strong>of</strong>, I thW, Etlrput six patients<br />
at a time.<br />
Q. Why would they come to the hospital?<br />
A. Because they would get better care than they'd get at or they didn't<br />
have anybody at h~m to--and they stayed in bed nine days<br />
got up the tenth day, whether or not they were able. Oh,<br />
Q. Tney get us up now the day after, whet he^ rrr.not.<br />
A. Have you had any children?<br />
Q. Four. (lawter)<br />
A. Oh, I' d 1lke to meet them somtim, Four. We were a&ays four childrentwo<br />
boys and two girl%.<br />
Q. Would the doctors be expecting problems? Is this why they'd send some<br />
<strong>of</strong> these womn into the hospitql do you think?<br />
I<br />
A. Well, they weren't $ping t the doctors beforehand as much then as they<br />
do now, no. They waited mtil ? almost tim for the baby to be born, and then<br />
theyf d get a doctor or somthwg like that. That's the wqy it was. I don't<br />
say for all patients; I guess r&my did have care at the bqginning, but they<br />
had their grandmothers and their mothers to tell them what to do and so<br />
forth.<br />
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