Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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they got there. You see, we hiad big @rls and boys, too.; Not high
school; the school program didn't include the hi@ school, then, not
during period of employmnt.
Q. This was just for the wade schools?
A. Yes, it was just for the grade school and that real was enou@I to
start out dth. (tape turned off)
Q. We were just saying that the dental clinic was only qr the wade
schools.
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A. Yes, and that was a demnstration, you see. They la+ had a nurse in
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the hi@ schaol.
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We had &@teen schools and they were scattered all mm. I had no car.
I had a form that I filled in only maMng a suggestion of an alh~nt, never
to say absolutely the child has granulated eyelids. Of qurse , you talked
in simple language mostly.
Q. How would you identif'y the children that needed help such as the
granulated . . .
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A. Oh, we had routine exadnations.
Q. Of each aild?
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A. Well, it was simple. The child would stand up. The* were only limited
things that I could report;. And they would stand up and mch around the
room, and as they cam to rre 1 would say, "Let nze see your hands. " And I
would [turn the hands palm up and over and] look for infection in between
the fingers, for any other breaking out on the hands, an4 then have them
hold their hair back this way. And I would look at the Qair to see /if there
were any little visitors there, or nits. And also look qt the ears/ And
then they would open their mouth. I ' d say, "Open your mquth and s
See, I didn't use a stick. That would've Pi@tened the4 for one
the little ones it would. And then they would say, "AhhWh,'' and
see their tonsils and their teeth. I sald of'ten that I mew the
by their tonsils rather than their faces. And their eyea, you
this first, and I could see the eyelids.
Q. Pull the lower eyelid dm? i
A. To see if there was granulation. And we had lots ofgranulation. Whenever
a new pupil appeared who had it, ; they were from out of town, you see,
because we had cleared it out here.
Q. What does granulation corm from?
A. Weal, it ' s a disease and it 's catching, badly. If
and they use the same towel as many families do, they
it. Washclothes, even, becawe there's a kind of