Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
weren't supposed to go out; with the doctors and he wanted to take me to his
mtherls how, to his hw. I didn't go the first time, bnnt I went the
next time, and I met him out amy fmrn the boat, He took p-~ to dinner
first, I guess, before he took me to his mother%. And I pemmber things
that happened there. She came down the stairway with a bl@& lace dress
on, floating around her and so forth and I thought, "Oh, 1ly. I dqnlt
know whether this is the place for me or not. l1 (chuckles And then at the
table, there was a little glass, and I didn't touch it. it was
liquor. Doctor Nolton was his nm. He got wise to
"Mother, ginger ale?" 'Why, yes, of mwse." (lams)
Q. So you were safe?
A. Yes, I was safe. 1
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Q. When you were telling E the story, he said, 'Will," t you at one
patient's bed and then walted wtil you had gotten to the next bed to say,
'Iyou,l1 and then waited for the next bed to say, "cow?"
A. Yes.
Q. Oh, that's darling. I take it it was a@nst company bgulatiom to
date doctors.
A. Yes. So the next mrning, I felt I had broken the rules at the mspital
and I went into the superintendent of nurses to tell her that I had been
out with Dr. Nolton. She said, "You dm1 t have to tell rner hrt 's already
been here. " (lawter) Wasnl t that nice.
Q. Was she mad?
A. No, she wasnl t . And when the end of the season cam d we had a party,
why he sent rrl~ roses; he sent her sm too. So that ww
Q. What was the reason for the rule?
A. I don't know, they mI@t carry on too much on the boat or sorething
like that in the presence of families, parents and so on. I don't know.
In the milk laboratory, we didn't have the cow, but we
big, box with ice in it fastened on the( ceiling of the
very hi&. This is on the lmer deck ~pld it had pipes down different
places. And you send one of the nurses down with the ne
mybe for the feeding of that baby, if it was his first
They could mix formula with different things, like b
fat free milk f'rorn another and so much fat in anothe
There was fat, sugar and proteb, each one in cow's
But in mther's milk, it's thre , seven, one. So t
like mtkrs milk. When I camback f to Springfiel
the doc to^ who had trouble withibaby feedhg, what to give them. Doctor
son was one. You how, I wa$ on the case, and I said, *Do you mind if
I do it the way we do in BostonPll "No, it's okay."
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