AUDIO
Interview with Dr Norma Witters
- Date
- 1992
- By
- Witters, Norma May (Dr), 1915-
- Reference
- OHInt-0019/08
- Description
Dr Norma Witters describes childhood, education and decision to enter medicine, Otago Medical School in the 1930s, attitude to women students, work as a house surgeon at Cook Hospital in Gisborne, detailed description of duties in semi-rural hospital, visiting specialists, tuberculosis, club feet and other endemic diseases, work as a locum in Stratford, attitude of patients to a women doctor, medical partnership in Gisborne, and then on own as a general practitioner until 1951, further career as a health officer in the Health Department on East Cape after 1958.
Venue - Gisborne
Interviewer(s) - Elaine Barron
Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration.
Search dates: 1992
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Listening copy is available at OHLCD-2306
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use requires the written permission of the donor Copyright: Held by New Zealand Women's Medical Association
- Access restrictions
- Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission - Requires written permission of the donor and the interviewee
- Part of
- New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records / Oral histories of NZ Medical Women Graduates
- Format
- 1 C60 cassette(s), 1 Hours Duration, Oral histories
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Interview with Dr Norma Witters, tape one
Date: 1992
From: New Zealand Medical Women's Association: Records
Reference: OHC-004290
Description: Interviewer(s) - Elaine Barron Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).