AUDIO
Interview with Joyce Rowley
- Date
- 18 Sep 2001
- By
- Rowley, Olive Joyce, 1921-2004
- Reference
- OHInt-0837-15
- Description
Interview with Joyce Rowley about her experience as a tuberculosis (TB) patients in the 1940s and 1950s. Talks about the shock of her diagnosis and being admitted to Coronation Hospital on May 10th 1946, at a time when she had been married for three years. Comments on having full bed rest on an open balcony, the comparative luxury of the "upper san" once she was transferred there for a few weeks, and the strict and spartan "middle san" that was the final recovery section. Mentions patients dying, and mothers not seeing their children. Discusses the staff, friendships with other patients, and patients' chores in the middle san. Talks about having one day a fortnight out of hospital when she was in the middle san, and being discharged after 13 months. Refers to having a pneumothorax, and needing continued treatment after discharge. Refers to having a lung removed later, a few months after having a baby prematurely. Comments on not seeing her baby for many months, and on the contribution and attention of her husband while she was in hospital. Refers to finding out years later that her mother had had TB when she was born. Reflects on TB having taken ten years out of her life.
Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012740
Quantity: 1 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-4277, OHDL-000909.
Search dates: 1946 - 2001
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Listening copy OHLC-008464
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
- 1 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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All Rights ReservedInterview with Joyce Rowley, printed transcript
Date: 18 Sep 2001
From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project
Reference: OHA-4277
Description: Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Quantity: 1 transcript(s).
Interview with Joyce Rowley, tape one
Date: 18 Sep 2001
From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project
Reference: OHC-012740
Description: Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Joyce Rowley, digital transcript
Date: 18 Sep 2001
From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project
Reference: OHDL-000909
Description: Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).