Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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at that th. I dontt know, I suppose there was somtbq. I don't
know what he d-Ld because he was too sick to talk about it. He had some
method of planting, I think, that he tawt the fanners, Qhe he advised
the fmrs to have. He was rraking his livlng that way and I don't how,
certainly sombody bmught him, sorw organization, fmm organization
or sowthing like that.
Q. How did they hear about you to send for you to aom aqd nurse him?
A. In F't. Worth there was a nursest reastry. We didn't have a registry
here when I was doing private duty. We got all our cases fkom Mr. Dodds
at the drug store. In that diary, there's a little story about that, the
one he gave m to take with m. He gave rre the gifts wriven up in the
diary.
Q. Do you want to start on the diary?
A. Well, I'll just try you out on it to see; it beas with the prelimlrmy
here. Of course, you haven't bad the prelinlinawy on how $ happened 'Go be
going to Siberia. Well, during the First World War, we h~@ a peat qeed
for nurses in the and in the Navy. We also had our mtients at,home
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to think about. I wanted to rrake rqyself available if I WE@ needed f r mllitary
service, but I was soon told that no, I'd better not o. That as at
the time when I was secretary of the State Board of Nurse F' xminers. It was
important; for II~R to go on with work with the nursing sqools and with
the arranging for the exminations for their licemure for4 practice. The
Red Cross was interested in me staying, too. So I went oq to a comn$ttee
where we passed upon the nurses who wmted to go. "Were they essential to
the work here or werent ' they?'' And they called their jobp, frozen jobs.
Just like the men, I guess the unions did too, call their work flwzen jobs.
So in a sense I was in a frozen job and happy to be there pnd do this'service.
It was not ny whole service. I kept Hat on with other work in
trying to keep the stan- up in schools of nursing and have them -rove.
I lose iq,r track, what I was going to . . .
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Q. Who served on this board, besides you? f
A. There were five. The board was made up of five. It w&, prorated in
the first place by the Illinois Nurses Association. We were divided-and
I lived through that, too. Miss Dalbey was our leader in that. Divided
up the state into districts and we were the thirteenth district here., Then
it took in several counties, so the whole state was dividejj. that way^ Then--
see, I lose track. I don't . . .
Q. You're doing fie. So there was you on the board and , . .
A. Oh, yes. And then Miss-at this t h , MISS Adalaide W&lsh, a
worm, a graduate of &my Hospital, very much of a lady, practical
as well, and she was mre concerned with her family at that time,
a Uttle bit mare leeway of taking a job and getting out, you see.
have to be on a specific job . She had a mother who was very sling
father felt she should be horn.
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