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Interview with Eileen Mary Henry

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Date

26 Mar 1985

By

Henry, Eileen Mary, 1921-2007

Reference

OHInt-0054/10

Description

Discusses family background; early childhood in London, emigration to New Zealand; childhood in Dunedin; education Fircroft Road School, London, Glenleddi (Glenledi ?) School, Milton, Maori Hill Primary School, Dunedin and Otago Girls' High School; problems with being left-handed; politics, religion; dental nurse training school, Wellington; moral lessons; accommodation at the Mansion, Ghuznee St, room mates; high dropout rate; hostel life; fellow students; dentists' attitude to dental nurses.

Talks about the volume of work; extractions; pain of patients; salary; first clinic at Hawera - contact with Maori population; relieving in Opunake; VAD training in World War II; NZ State Dental Nurses' Institute; clinic at New Plymouth and then Invercargill; dental clinic committees; inspections; health problems and mercury; characteristics of school dental nuses; return to dental nursing in 1964; job satisfaction.

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Venue - Invercargill

Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe

Venue - Mrs Henry's home in Invercargill

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000682/000683/000684

Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 47.

Three b&w photos. Portrait, 1941; at North School Dental Clinic, Invercargill, ca 1944; portrait, 1981.

Additional description

Alternative form available: Digital copies of the recording are also available in the Library's Reading Room

Listening copies are available at OHLC-007478, OHLC-007479 and OHLCD-0158

Use/Reproduction

Public use requires the written permission of the donor and the interviewee Copyright: Copyright held by New Zealand State Dental Nurses' Institute

Access restrictions

Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission - Access requires written permission of the donor

Part of

NZOHA NZ State Dental Nurses Institute 50th Jubilee Oral History Project

Format

3 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 3 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Illustration: Three b&w photos. Portrait, 1941; at North School Dental Clinic, Invercargill, ca 1944; portrait, 1981., Equipment used: Sony WM-D6C

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