Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
A. Yes, yes. Most of them
while they would say, ''1 would have
It was that ldnd of thing. Of
I don't read them anymre because rqy eyes won't let m.
Q. Well, you were a little lady detective.
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A. I remmber going m the train, comLng up from southe Illinois. I
still inspected schools of r~u~ging. mat is, they were ke me, they were
Inspecting everything. See, I had midwives, I had all th
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&. I don't see how you had tk.
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A. I took a m who was equipped to inspect a barber
baxbers had
to have licensure. He could inspect a barber shop or
he couldnlt inspect a nursing school in our state, in
in ndne. And yet I had to go into som? of these
I suppose it give me information that I could use.
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Q. You never had to inspect an undertaking establishment?
A. No.
Q. I bet you were grateful for that?
A. Well, I think so. Let Is see, them was a saying that our president had
about a report. Oh, we were sandwiched nurses. We were
in this
report between the barbers and the undertakers.
president who said that, Miss Adalaide Walsh,
That's person. the She last corn I've down seen to the of her.
train in Chicago when I was D
n q way to Siberia.
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Q. Did you blow the whistle on many of these people? Put them out of
business?
A. Well, I guess the state departmnt did throw its law. I was through
with the case when I reported to the local attorney and to qy departmnt.
Q. Before we leave that, as you were inspecting the nursi
would you look for?
A. Well.. .
Q. They eventually would have to pass an exam, is that cc
you be . . .
A. NO, licensm was not a requiremnt. But they couldnl
And every nurse wanted to be an RN.
Q. I see, You could be a nurse . . .
A. It is compulsory Fn some states, I don't know what it
don't. I haven't kept up with it. But I think they all a
g schools, what
?ect? So would
me the RN.
; now, I really
~t--when they
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