Women's health services

Health services for women, Women - Medical care
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Family Planning Association oral history project

Date: 1992-July 1995

By: Smyth, Helen, 1964-; New Zealand Family Planning Association

Reference: OHColl-0566

Description: Traces the history of the Family Planning Movement and particularly the Family Planning Association in New Zealand. The interviews were recorded to provide research for the book "Rocking the cradle - contraception, sex and politics in New Zealand" by Helen Smyth [Wellington c.2000] Interviewees of the project are: Joyce Armstrong, June Berry, Ruth Black, Pat Boulton, Katharine Bowden, Gillian Burrell, Nancy Campbell, Mercia Churton, Jan Coutts, Clifford Davey, Frances Donkin, Gill Harris, Theo Horsley, Lorraine Hughes, Sally Hughes, Vincent Hurrey, Alwyn Jones, Elspeth Kjestrup, Jean Lawrie, Jean Lunn, Barbara Lusk, Naida Lyttle, Mavis McFarlane, Helen McGill, Alice Meggett, Elizabeth Smales, Margaret Sparrow, Sheila Stancombe, Kaye Stokes, Jennifer Tarrant, Christine Taylor, Sheila Tillott, Glenys Wood, Valda Woods and Ruth Brown. Tauranga group interviewees are: Elizabeth Armstrong, Raewyn Harrison, Barbara Legg, Nancy Merriman, Shirley Mitchell, Kay Sutherland and Ngaire Wilson. Hawkes Bay group interviewees are: Gill Lough, Noelyn Maulder, Penny Nickson, Beverley Rudd, Dick Sunders and Marcia Sonnerveld. Interviewer(s) - Helen Smyth Quantity: 43 C60 cassette(s). 36 interview(s). 35 transcript(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.

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Sisters for life oral history project

Date: 2011-2013

By: Inch, Barbara Margaret, 1953-

Reference: OHColl-1032

Description: Interviews with eleven Christchurch School of Nursing PMH [Princess Margaret Hospital] graduates class 1971-1974. Interviews were conducted between 2011 and 2013 by interviewer Barbara Inch (except for the interview with Barbara Inch, conducted by Michelle Bradley). Interviews discuss early family life and family history; leaving home for the first time; experiences at the Christchurch School of Nursing living and working together as students; women's health and reproductive issues; and working with patients, and the ongoing connections with other graduates. Abstracted by Barbara Moorhouse. Project received an Award in Oral History from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2011 and 2012. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 11 interview(s). 23 digital sound recording(s). 47 Electronic document(s) digital abstracts, agreements, biographical information forms, and supporting documents. 24 electronic scan(s). 14 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 10 digital photograph(s). 11 printed abstract(s). 5 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 2 folder(s) supporting documents nd biographical information forms. Search dates: 2011 - 2013 Number of interviews/events: 11

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Interview with Ellen Ellis

Date: 05 Apr 2001

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Ellis, Ellen, 1944-; Women's Studies Association (N.Z.)

Reference: OHInt-0556-02

Description: Ellen Ellis was born in Westport in 1944. Describes family life, her father (a diplomat), and a family posting to Canada in 1949. Recalls returning to Wellington and secondary school. Talks about her mother's health and treatment. Mentions university study. Describes teacher training college, and work at Victoria University Library, Wellington. Discusses sexuality and relationships. Talks about working at Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Library School, working for Alister Taylor, and the challenges of being a sole parent in full time work. Talks about co-ordinating music for Harry Seresin's The Settlement restaurant, Willis St, Wellington. Talks about the development of her feminist consciousness. Comments on her mother's life. Discusses encounter groups, Bert Potter and Centrepoint. Discusses housing and discriminatory attitudes towards women. Mentions the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). Describes Wilderland Commune, Coromandel, New Zealand. Talks about her involvement in the Hecate Women's Health Collective and alternative health groups in Wellington. Describes National Archives work, the feminist librarians' group, teaching on the Women's Studies course, involvement with Women's Studies Association, working as a research consultant, and researching Sandra Coney's book 'Standing in the sunshine'. Talks about TV documentary research on abortion, and various writing projects. Mentions researching Boer War concentration camps. Reflects on feminism in her life, in relationships, housework, emotional equity, and feminist gains. Mentions that child care is still a critical issue. Other - Note: Part of interview was lost. During the recording, a completed tape was reused to record the next part of the interview by mistake. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, photo, biographical information form Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8522 - OHC-8525 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2650, OHDL-000999.

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Coney, Sandra, 1944-: Papers

Date: 1969-1978

By: Coney, Sandra, 1944-

Reference: 98-162

Description: Papers cover mainly the early 1970s and the various women's organisations during this period who campaigned for women's rights and women's issues such as health, abortion rights and legislation, self awareness, sexuality, equal pay issues, sex-roles and stereotyping. The papers include correspondence, various newspaper, magazine and journal articles, information sheets, financial material, newsletters, minutes, cuttings, submissions to government, working papers, reports, flyers and promotional material. Quantity: 13 folder(s). 0.35 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms Coney, May 1998

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Interview with June Berry

Date: 24 Mar 1993

From: Family Planning Association oral history project

By: Berry, June, 1931-; Smyth, Helen, 1964-

Reference: OHInt-0566-02

Description: June Berry born 1931 in Canterbury. Mentions growing up in rural Canterbury, and boarding school in Christchurch. Talks about how she came to be involved in Family Planning in 1981 in New Plymouth. Explains the circumstances leading to her neighbour, Leslie Jones establishing Family Planning in New Plymouth. Talks about enjoying her role as front person providing a safe place for women to talk about their problems, and being assured of strict confidentiality. Talks about a non-judgemental atmosphere, where the clinic will help them solve their problems as best they can. Explains the growth in their client base, and talks about women who phoned when they had been to their doctor yet remained unsure of what they were supposed to do. Describes the most significant law change during her involvement, which allowed women under 16 years access to the contraceptive pill. Talks about prevalence of parents in denial about their children being sexually active, and talks about the satisfaction of not having to turn away young clients. Comments that she sees the clinic as a real lifeline, particularly for teenagers, and perceives that young people now are more sexually active than in her youth. Says that all ages visit the clinic to get cervical smears. Talks about the clinic performing vasectomies since 1993. Mentions that they have few Maori clients and no Maori staff. Interviewer(s) - Helen Smith Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008276a (Side A) Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available.

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Interview with Phillida Bunkle

Date: 14 May 2000

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Bunkle, Phillida (Hon), 1944-; Abigail, Jill, 1939?-; Victoria University of Wellington. Department of Women's Studies

Reference: OHInt-0556-01

Description: Phillida Bunkle was born in Cookfield, East Sussex, in 1944. Comments that both sides of family are from the English/Scottish border. Mentions her grandmothers and their attitudes to their roles. Talks about her mother, who was a primary school teacher and taught all her life. Discusses hysterectomy. Describes in depth family history, family attitudes to education, social class, and World War I. Describes the style of mothering she received, and the impact of World War II on her family. Talks about her father. Describes school life and her experiences of sitting examinations. Discusses attitudes towards sexuality and academic achievement. Discusses experiences at Keele University, choosing subjects with oral dissertations. Comments on the sexual politics of the era, mentions barriers to contraception. Describes how experience of these issues led to her interest in women's health and concern at the medical system's monopoly over information. Describes achieving a first class degree, despite stress over final exams, and winning scholarship to Smith College, where she learnt the art of writing. Talks about incorporating wider learning styles into the curriculum at Victoria University's Women's Studies, as a result of her experiences. Describes completing an M.A. in American History at Oxford, and becoming interested in feminism, dietary reform, alternative health, and women's roles. Comments on her role in developing the foundation of what became 'women's history'. Discusses abortion, further study at Harvard and mentions her marriage to Jock Phillips in 1971. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Biographical information form Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8522 - OHC-8525 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2649, OHDL-000998.

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Interview with Vera Levett

Date: 19 06 00 - 19 Jun 2000

From: YWCA of Wellington and Hutt Valley oral history project

By: Levett, Vera Schlesinger, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0590-7

Description: Vera Levett was born in Trencin, Czechoslovakia in 1935. Mentions Jewish origin, and talks about her mother who was a seamstress and her father who was a doctor. Talks about escaping Czechoslovakia during World War II, cousins who died in concentration camps, the impact of the Holocaust, bombing, air raids in England, and emigrating to the United States. Talks about girlhood, school, university and her doctorate in clinical psychology. Mentions marriage, moving to New Zealand, two children. Talks about interest in feminism, joining National Organisation of Women (NOW), feminist literature on mental health. Mentions work as guidance counsellor and at the Wellington School of Medicine. Describes helping establish Hecate Women's Health Collective in 1979, and involvement in a television documentary on mental health that was critical of doctors. Mentions Hecate referring women to Levett for counselling, and mentions the Women's Resource Centre. Talks about friendship with Elizabeth Sewell, National Director of YWCA, who recruited feminists. Talks about tension between Sewell and YWCA's non-feminist lobby, and being a YWCA board member. Mentions collegues Faith Gibbons, Audrey Reynolds, Mary-Jane Rivers and Gail Powell. Describes self defence courses, sexual abuse discussions, board meetings. Comments on YWCA as a traditional organisation and feminists' impact on it. Mentions Hecate's closure by the end of the 1980s. Talks about decision to leave YWCA to work at Child and Family service, Hutt Valley Health and her private practice. Talks about feminism's impact on her children, and mentions adoption. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - Project release form, biographical information, CV. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-9070-9072 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2875. Photocopy (coloured) mid shot of Vera Levett.

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Interview with Christopher Harison

Date: 12 May-28 Jul 1998 - 12 May 1998 - 28 Jul 1998

From: Neonatal Nursing Oral History Project

By: Harison, Christopher Stratford, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0131/20

Description: Christopher Harison was born and raised in South Africa where he trained as a doctor. Describes working in hospitals as an obstetrician in Great Britain and South Africa, including time in a mission hospital in South Africa. Also describes being in private practice there. Recalls his feelings about Sharpeville. Describes the decision to come to New Zealand and his work as the first obstetrician in Thames. Discusses his attitudes to home birth and abortion and involvement with SPUC. Talks about National Women's Hospital and the `unfortunate experiment'. Describes appearing before the Medical Council. Comments that his career has encompassed major developments in obstetrics and midwifery, the growth of the home birth movement and feminism and the restructuring of the health services. Discusses his approach to teamwork in obstetrics, the development of screening tests in pregnancy, the identification of high risk, the reorganisation of obstetric services on the Coromandel, medical and midwifery education and changes in nursing education. Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) - in 3 folders. 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1742, OHDL-000833.

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SOS: Stories from the Sisters Overseas Service oral history project

Date: 2019

By: Craw, Georgie, active 2019-2020

Reference: OHColl-1581

Description: Interviews conducted by interviewer Georgie Craw in 2019 with figures involved in the Sisters Overseas Service (SOS), which helped people travel to Australia to access abortions in the late 1970s. SOS was a grassroots response to the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, which made it virtually impossible for most women to access abortions in New Zealand. The interviews in this collection generally focus on the experiences of women involved in the Women’s Liberation Movement who also became involved in SOS. The interviewees were: Sarah Calvert, Christine Dann, Beverly Davy, Lynsey Ferrari, Dilys Grant, Kindra Howard, Denise McEnteer, Diane Shannon, and Joss Shawyer. Project received Award in Oral History funding from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in 2018. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 9 Interview(s). 20 Electronic document(s). 17 digital sound recording(s). 9 printed abstract(s) includes recording agreement forms. Search dates: 2019

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Wells, Anne, fl 1993-2010 :Photographs relating to International Women's Day 1999

Date: 8 Mar 1999

By: Wells, Anne, active 1990-2015

Reference: PA-Group-00628

Description: Photographs relating to an International Women's Day event held in Civic Square, Wellington, on 8 March 1999, taken by an unidentified photographer. Shows musicians performing on a stage, and stalls representing various women's groups including YWCA, Rape Crisis, BreastScreen Aotearoa, VUWSA Women's Group, as well as Amnesty International and the People's Resource Centre. All printed photographs, as well as some additional frames, are also held as negatives. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives held at 35mm-93139 to 35mm-93147 Quantity: 24 colour original photographic print(s) colour original photographic print(s). 9 colour original negative(s) strips with 29 images. Physical Description: Photographic prints, photographic negatives Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-9736 : Wells, Anne, fl 2010 : Papers relating to Internation Women's Day.

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Interview with Linda Gilmore

Date: 24 July 1993 - 24 Jul 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Gilmore, Linda, 1953-

Reference: OHInt-0067/038

Description: Linda Gloria Gilmore born Auckland. Outlines family background - both parents teachers. Describes childhood and being educated at home by parents until Form II and then Manurewa High School. Describes time spent at hairdressing college and gives father's opinion of hairdressing. Talks about nursing training then leaving to have baby and later joining staff of Fletcher Timber. Describes working conditions. Met and married Maurie, a school teacher at Tairua and moved to Waihi. Describes: big flood at Waihi; organic horticulture; involvement with women and children's health issues; home birth issues - is an active member of Thames Valley Home Birth Association; La Leche League; Ohinemuri Earthwatch Group and is a representative on the Council's Waste Management Committee looking at Hauraki's future waste disposal. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005849A; OHV-0272A Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1256.

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Recording - Jayashree Panjabi, 'And Baby Makes Three'

Date: 1982 - 01 Jan 1982

By: Panjabi, Jayashree, active 1930s-1982

Reference: OHColl-0298/1

Description: Jayashree Panjabi talks about abortion in New Zealand in the 1930s Venue - Wellington : 1982 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT7-0065 Quantity: 1 7" reel(s). 1 event(s).

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Interview with Shirley Ellis

Date: 11 January 1994 - 11 Jan 1994

From: National Council of Women: Narratives from a century - oral history project

By: Ellis, Shirley Annette, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0387/11

Description: Shirley Ellis born in Te Rangi Maternity Hospital. Outlines family background - father one of the Webley Brothers, builders in Nelson, who were responsible for many of the city's large wooden buildings. Trained as a music teacher and appointed a full-time teacher and house mistress at Columba College (Dunedin). Discusses difficulties being a catholic teacher in a Presbyterian College. Married in 1952 and took up residence in the old family home in Palmerston - Arohanui has been a Coaching Inn on the Main Road into Central Otago. Describes formation of choir in Palmerston through Adult Education Section of Otago University. Describes involvement with Catholic Womens League, National Council of Women and Women's Division of Federated Farmers. Mentions women involved with NCW - Alison Roxburgh, Karen Glasgow, Mary Dixon, Ruby Pierson, Shirley Walker, Dorothea Horsman. Refers to Mavis Tiller's statement about women in a voluntary capacity making up the fabric of society. Discusses the way women have been taken for granted and the importance of unpaid work. Reference to anomaly of care-giving members of family not receiving pay and gives details. Recalls NCW support for families of the profoundly deaf; compulsory helmets for cyclists and primary health care for women. Describes involvement on Women's Suffrage Steering Committee, 1993. Gives details of life with Red Cross, with reference to Geneva Convention. Refers to a period as a broadcaster, firstly as an accompanist and later as a shopping reporter in Nelson. Recalls details of swaggers in Otago - Shiner, Barney Whiterats. Explains buying Pepin Island and the happy life there. Mentions concert parties during World War II. Describes involvement as a lay person in the Catholic Church - as a visitor of the St Vincent De Paul Society; as a Eucharist Minister since 1993, and explains how this would never have been contemplated for lay persons years ago - raises the question of women priests. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Nelson Interviewer(s) - Mary Tallon Accompanying material - CV attached with list of work experience and voluntry activities Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006314-006315 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1447. One coloured photocopy of photograph of Shirley Ellis

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Interview with Stephenie Orchard

Date: 24 Apr 2001

From: Nursing biographies - Wellington Polytechnic, 1973-1998

By: Orchard, Stephenie Helen, 1945-

Reference: OHInt-0599/01

Description: Stephenie Helen Orchard (nee Creasey) born Leicester, England, 1945. Recalls her training as a nurse at Northampton General Hospital in England, commencing 1962 at the age of 16 years. Describes the loneliness when hospitalised as a child for eye squint surgery, being blindfoled most of the time. Gives reasons for coming to New Zealand, arriving ca 1970 and commencing at Wellington Hospital in ward 14, abnormal gynaecology and obstetrics. Talks about experience at SANS (School of Advanced Nursing Studies) 1974, obtaining Diploma in Nursing. Refers to Rita McEwan. Discusses interest in teaching and commencing at Polytechnic. Talks about the rickety old houses in Tasman Street that served as class rooms. Refers to how she was received at Wellington Hospital as a member of the Polytechnic staff. Recalls teaching third year in 1988 and refers to teaching about the menopause. Recalls how the climate was changing in nursing education and the pressure on nurses to have higher qualifications. Outlines own development, completing Masters degree in 1999. Refers to Thesis, `The Characteristics of the Clinical Education role as perceived by the Registered Nurses working in the practice setting'. Talks about some of the changes seen during twenty years teaching at Wellington Polytechnic. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Venue - Massey University, Wellington Campus Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009778-009779 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3257. Search dates: 2001

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Interview with Liz Brunton

Date: 01 Nov 1999

From: Nursing biographies - Wellington Polytechnic, 1973-1998

By: Brunton, Dorothy Elizabeth, 1946-2011

Reference: OHInt-0599/19

Description: Dorothy Elizabeth (Liz) Brunton born Hamilton 1946. Talks about nursing background, training at Dunedin 1964-67, and midwifery, 6 months at Christchurch 1972. After overseas experience studied at Victoria University, majoring in Psychology and Nursing Studies. Recalls undertaking a research programme at St Helen's Hospital. Mentions Bea Salmon. Describes various nursing positions before commencing at Wellington Polytechnic in 1984 teaching the obstetric module before moving to midwifery programme. Talks about the political movement in New Zealand for Independent Midwives with reference to the `normality of childbirth'. Discusses her involvement in committees associated with women's self autonomy - taking responsibility for their health and alternative remedies. Recalls serving on the National Council of Nurses, National Council of Women as Vice President, Family and Child Committee, (GMT Information agency) and Women's Health Resource Centre in Wellington. Recalls joining the Domino Midwives group in 1992. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Venue - Massey University Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009756 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3239.

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Interview with Sylvia Bagnall

Date: 22 Aug 1998

From: Lower Hutt Women's Centre oral history project

By: Bagnall, Sylvia, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0560/2

Description: Sylvia Bagnall born Palmerston North 1944. Describes her introduction to the Women's Centre Lower Hutt when she was working for the Help Foundation. Refers to Wendy Thompson. Discusses interest in Women's Health Collective and the need for women in the Hutt Valley to make contact with other women. Mentions reading Broadsheet and her own path to feminist activities. Describes setting up the Women's Centre Board of Trustees, mentioning Sonja Davies, Diana Stogre Power, Mayoress Evans and Pat Hall (City Councillor). Mentions PACIFICA. Describes YWCA and their change of emphasis to social activism and negotiations to swap the YWCA hall for a house the Women's Centre could use. Mentions Rosemary Barrington. Refers to Centre as a refuge. Describes the role of the Centre's Board of Trustees and the tension between trying to be respectable and trying to have a revolution. Refers to the monthly feminist series set up for women. Mentions Helen Clark, Jan Jordan, Glory Box (Pinky Agnew and Therese O'Connell). Recalls involvement in organising and running Homophobia and Treaty (of Waitangi) workshops. Describes the background behind the Homophobia workshops and response from participants. Mentions the lesbian presence at the Women's Centre. Also mentions Women's Refuge and their relationship with the Women's Centre. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Mathea Roorda Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009417 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3050.

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Smear tactics by the Department of Health

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940-: Sound and video recordings

Reference: OHInt-0647/35

Description: A programme on cervical smear tests by the Department of Health Access Contact - see oral history librarian Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHV-0655 Quantity: 1 videocassette(s). 1 event(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no documentation available.

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[Ephemera of quarto size relating to health, public health, nutrition. 1998-1999]

Date: 1998-1999

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to health, public health, nutrition]

Reference: Eph-B-HEALTH-1998/1999

Description: Includes (selectively): 1998: Diabetes can affect anyone; be aware, be tested [1998?]. Flier Head Injury Society of Wellington Inc. AGM. Laings Road Methodist Church, 12 May [1998]. Flier Health Funding Authority. Advisory group consultation for population-based prevention programmes [1998] Pacific Islands Heartbeat newsletter. Auckland [ca 1998] 1999: Allergy Awareness Week, 7-14 February [1999]. Flier The big friendly book of Hepatitis C. Caveat Emptor Production for Needle Exchange New Zealand Trust. 1999 Haemophilia Foundation of New Zealand. Annual fundraising appeal [1999]. Pamphlet; and pamphlet of discount vouchers Pacific Health Service Wellington. 7 Hall Street, Newtown. [1999?]Flier Prevention for Women; magazine health books. Advertising pamphlet [1999?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

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Nursing badges of Doris Taur Pedersen

Date: 1930-1935, 1951

Reference: Objects-0024

Description: Badge makers unidentified. Seven metal enamelled badges previously belonging to Doris Taur Pedersen. Many are inscribed on the reverse and date from 1930 to 1951: - RN [Registered Nurse], December 1932; - NZ Registered Midwife 1935 (no  3359); - Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko i te Ora 1951; - Trained Nurses' Association of India (DP 856); - NZRN [New Zealand Registered Nurse], Star, 1930 D Pedersen no 6709; - NZ Registered Maternity Nurse (D Pedersen 1932, no 1712); - Diploma of Nursing badge (D T Pedersen 1944). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 7 curio(s). Physical Description: Metal badges, all approximately 30 mm across. Provenance: Donated by the family of Doris Pedersen in Apr 2001 Processing information: Description edited as part of Curios and Objects survey, 2022. Previous reference: Curios-001-024 Previous title: Various artists :[Nursing badges of Doris Taur Pedersen. 1930s?].

Manuscript

Mastectomy and other correspondence

Date: 1980

From: Batchelor, Mary Dorothy, 1927-2009 : Papers

Reference: 77-132-19/13

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).