Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Q. How did the people know about the Boston Floating Hos#tal?
A. Well, it got a good deal of publicity in the
papers. And then there were all these people
that made the little plate that hung on each
of so-and-so, it was dedicated to and by whom.
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Q. Were these mstly charity cases?
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A. They didn't pay anything. All of them were as far as how. And the
doctors were the ones who fed the patients to the hospita They would see
them jyl their offices or they would be in a clinic in the ospital sorewhere.
Then they thought of the treatnents they could give them. These were fine
doctors who were Harvard mdical En and one other medicalj scho~l there. I
can't remember the nan~ of it.
Q. Would Tufts be one of the schools? I
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A. Yes, I think so, Tuf'ts Medical School. Then we, oh, cpce OF twice
a year, we went to som shore, particularly on a Sunday, *ere people would
come and visit who were interested in it as a charity. 14 did require a lot
of mney, you know, It was connected with the on shore h
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spital. That was
on Wiggelsworth Street. I can remember that funny nave. ss [Sarah] Eagen
was the superintendent for the rest of career.
Q. On Sunday then, the donors and the contributors would tour the &ip?
A. Yes, and their flriends, to get more, such as they had in the past, too,
get mre people interested. And then I had r~ postgradua* work, in w
teachers college work. I had field work, I had two mntha general duty on
the Fast Harlem Nursing and Health Serivce which was a der@nstr&h. That
is, not just m, but it was supported by big foundations; funds f'rom them.
Just proving certain things. 3 had a student experience m that in carrying
the bag, and so forth. It was public health nursing. Well, we wouldn't
[always] rrake j ust one visit. We would make j ust one visW if that was all
that was necessary. We had our territory in bfie Fast WJem area, and would
take care of it. That was prescribed by Colzrmbia Wvers3ty in East Harlem.
Q. How did you get into that program?
A. Well, that was part of my course, the practical part
pmlic heath nursing--organization and supervision.
Q. Which you were taking where? At Colurrbia?
A. Yes.
Q. And what year was this?
A. This was the s m r of 1922. No, I'm sorry, 1923, it~must've been because
it was after I got my depe. ?hey arranged it thatt way. I got my
depe in June and this was th$ smr following of 1923.