AUDIO
Interview with Barrie and Zoe Ohlsen
- Date
- 3 Sep 2001 - 03 Sep 2001
- By
- Ohlsen, Barrie Thomas Frederick, 1931-; Ohlsen, Zoe Lyle, active 1950-2001
- Reference
- OHInt-0837-14
- Description
Interview with Barrie and Zoe Ohlsen about their experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) orphan (Barrie) and as tuberculosis (TB) patients in the 1940s and 1950s. Barrie talks about his parents dying of TB when he was a child and having no recollection of them. Refers to living in the the Fresh Air Home for children of TB patients at Cashmere with his sister, and later being moved to the Methodist Orphanage and Children's Home while his sister was taken in by an aunt. Discusses his life in the orphanage, food, discipline, and occasional visits to relatives. Barrie refers to leaving the orphanage when he was 15 and being admitted to the sanatorium in 1949 after coughing blood. Comments that he had trouble getting a job after he was discharged. Talks about being admitted to Coronation Hospital a second time, by which stage there were drug treatments for TB, and meeting Zoe there. Zoe talks about her experience as a TB patient - the shock of the diagnosis, bed rest, mass x-rays and other patients dying. She discusses visitors, and recreation and entertainment for the patients. They talk about romances in the "san", gambling, occupational therapy, food, Dr MacIntyre and the nursing staff. Barrie refers to staying with Zoe's mother when he was discharged and getting married in 1956. He talks about a recurrence of TB when it migrated from one lung to the other, and having surgery. Discuss starting their married life with very little money, gradually getting established and having children. Barrie reflects on talking to service clubs about his experiences as a TB patient.
Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012738 - OHC-012739
Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s).
Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4276, OHDL-000908.
Search dates: 1931 - 2001
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Listening copies OHLC-008461, OHLC-008463
Both printed and digital versions of the transcript are available
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use requires the written permission of the copyright holder Copyright: Copyright held by Sue McCauley
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project
- Format
- 2 C60 cassette(s), 1 transcript(s) - printed, 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript, 1 interview(s), Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents, Textual file - Microsoft word
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Interview with Barrie and Zoe Ohlsen, printed transcript
Date: 3 Sep 2001
From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project
Reference: OHA-4276
Description: Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Quantity: 1 transcript(s).
Interview with Barrie and Zoe Ohlsen, tape two
Date: 3 Sep 2001
From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project
Reference: OHC-012739
Description: Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Barrie and Zoe Ohlsen, digital transcript
Date: 3 Sep 2001
From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project
Reference: OHDL-000908
Description: Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).
Interview with Barrie and Zoe Ohlsen, tape one
Date: 3 Sep 2001
From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project
Reference: OHC-012738
Description: Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).