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> <strong>Tittman</strong><br />
Q. Were the caps different for different schools?<br />
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A. Yes, school cap . . .<br />
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Q. Your school cap would've been fYom <strong>Springfield</strong> Hospft<br />
comct ?<br />
A. Yes, that I s rf@t. 1<br />
.s that<br />
Q. Now when you graduated from Colmnbia, would you have & different cap<br />
or would you keep this one?<br />
A. Well, youwore your ~wn cap, unless--+-now in the Bostm Floating<br />
pital you had to have your hair all covered, see. And thpt was goo<br />
when you wore your cap at any other place like at Johns<br />
F<br />
pkLns, I vJo~<br />
just the same cap that you saw in the picture. O w shoes we needed rubber<br />
heels, you know, so they d keep quiet. There wasnt t so ch about bhe clothing.<br />
Our washing was done; we didn't have.to do it. We 'dntt have to do<br />
any <strong>of</strong> it, but you have all these nurses coming <strong>of</strong>f duty d washing their<br />
undies and all. Not anywhere &id we have to do that.<br />
There was somthing else I wasnted to tell you. At<br />
going back into my postgraduate work--1 told you<br />
don't thinlc there's any special incident. I<br />
in the operating mom there and that<br />
postg~aduak at Johns Hopkins.<br />
Q. This goes back to 1908 thm?<br />
A. Yes, that s ri&t. I went there for childrent s work, but I could only<br />
t&e care <strong>of</strong> the children who were on the wards because +ey did not have<br />
a separate childrents building. They didh? t have them a U congregated.<br />
Q. You man therefd be a child next to an adult in a w W?<br />
A. No, they had little rooms <strong>of</strong>f <strong>of</strong> that. No, they were)ntt with the adults.<br />
Then there would be some rooms back where they'd have sp ial cases and wlth<br />
the children. There were so many children with bone culties and hips.<br />
Q. Rickets or congenital?<br />
A. Well, it would be conpniba.1 mstly. But I had a <strong>of</strong> the outpatient<br />
dep&mnt, no children at all. And that is may have told<br />
this before. A man care in with his mouth all<br />
&.<br />
(laughs) Yes.<br />
A. And I remeuber I told you som other things, too, ab the baths. I<br />
told you about the baths.<br />
Q. What were your hours, were you working twelve hour'&s at Coldia,<br />
Bellevue and the Floating Hospital?<br />
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