Cashmere Sanatorium (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Date: 4 Dec 1915

Reference: PA5-0197

Description: A view of the `Womens Wing' of the Sanatorium, Cashmere, Christchurch taken ca 1915 Verso contains letter dated Dec 4th 1915 to May from Rose and explains that `this is a photo of `Womans Wing'. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title written in pen Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 85 x 138 mm

Date: 20 Sep 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Norcliffe, Billy, active 1950-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-04

Description: Interview with Billy Norcliffe about his experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the early 1950s. Mentions he was living in Kaimata near Greymouth with his wife and two young children, building their house and working for the Electricity Department, when he developed TB. Talks about being in an isolation unit in Grey Hospital for about a month, then being sent to Cashmere for treatment. Refers to complete bedrest for several months and having a lung collapsed. Discusses how patients spent their time, and occupational therapy in the middle unit when he was recovering. Refers to being sent home after a few months, and continuing to have X-rays, tests for reinfection and management of the collapsded lung for a long time. Comments on the people who had rallied round to help his wife while he was sick. Discusses trying for a long time to get another job, always mentioning in his applications that the had had TB, and eventually getting a job at Addington which allowed him to move to a drier climate. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012726 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-4266, OHDL-000898. Search dates: 1950 - 2001

Date: 3 Sep 2001 - 03 Sep 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

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

Date: 1 Oct 2001 - 01 Oct 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Reeve, Betty Margaret, active 1947-2001

Reference: OHInt-0837-13

Description: Interview with Betty Reeve about her experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the late 1940s. Refers to being diagnosed with TB in 1947 when she was eighteen years old, and being admitted to Cashmere Sanatorium. Comments on being devastated at being cut off from the outside world for 12 months with the first two months as total bed rest. Talks about the friendly patients in the women's ward who helped her forget her self pity. Mentions patients came from as far away as Wellington and the West Coast. Comments that she was not allowed to knit while on bed rest but could read magazines, and that she had few visitors. Mentions the relief she felt when she was allowed to get up for an hour a day. Refers to having a lung collapse or pneumothorax, and needing follow-up treatment for it for three years. Discusses moving to the "top san" where she had a single room and patients could socialise during the day and do knitting or needlework. Comments she was moved down to the "middle san" where patients "hardened off" in huts with doors always open. Refers to being discharged from hospital after a year, and having to reconnect with friends whose lives had moved on. Talks about having regular check-ups until she was declared fit to work again, and going back to Coronation Hospital to train as a nurse. Describes an occasion when a patient haemhorraged badly when she was on night duty, and another patient haemhorraging and dying before any other staff arrived. Talks about leaving after two years to get married and getting pregnant shortly afterwards. Refers to needing regular check-ups during her first pregnancy and being advised not to breastfeed. Reflects on how she matured during her time as a patient and a nurse. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012737 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-4275, OHDL-000907. Search dates: 1947 - 2001

Date: 18 Sep 2001

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

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

Date: 20 Apr 2002

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Barton, Alexander Steven, 1928-2012

Reference: OHInt-0837-11

Description: Interview with Alex Barton about his experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the early 1950s. Refers to growing up in Gore, attending university in 1947-1949, and working at the Waipiata Sanatorium as an orderly one summer. Talks about being diagnosed with TB the following Easter, and being admitted to the sanatorium in June when his sister could go with him to work there. Discusses that he chose to go to Waipiata instead of Waikari because of its self contained community, and that he was there for over four years. Describes the pavilion style wards with windows open almost all the time, and the hospital being run very cheaply. Mentions that he got fat on the food provided which included a lot of cream. Comments that the medical superintendent Arthur Kidd had to visit hospitals from Ashburton to Invercargill checking TB patients and former patients, and that he did not delegate responsibilities to his deputy. Refers to being carried on a stretcher to the building with the X-ray machine several times a year. Mentions treatments he had, patients dying, and fear of haemorrhages. Comments on the lack of psychological support for long term patients. Explains how his parents wanted to move him to Cashmere Sanatorium after they had been summoned when it was thought he was dying. Recalls that the Waipiata staff failed to notify Cashmere or to send his records. Tells how he was encouraged to do light duties and mingle with other patients at Cashmere once was walking because he had become withdrawn at Waipiata. Talks about being discharged after a year but having a relapse and needing surgery on both lungs. Reflects on the effects of his experiences on his attitudes and his life, training at Knox Theological College and becoming a hospital chaplain. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012734 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-4273, OHDL-000905.

Reference: 1/1-017816-G

Description: Shows a sanatorium, Cashmere Hill, Christchurch, which consists of many small units, built on the side of a hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [194-?]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PICT-000130

Description: Aerial view of Cashmere Sanatorium, Christchurch. Photograph taken circa 1940s for the National Publicity Studios by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1910-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-022277-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-022278-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-022281-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-022268-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: 1/2-154636-F

Description: A row of young boys sunbathing on wicker deck chairs at a sanatorium in Cashmere, Christchurch. Three nurses stand behind. Photograph taken by Green & Hahn. Original print in Freelance Collection Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-022279-G

Description: Consumptive sanatorium (architects: Seagar, Wood, Munnings), Cashmere, Christchurch, photographed circa 1920s by Steffano Webb. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Inscriptions: On neg: Consumptive Sanatorium Seagar Wood Munnings. 47 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1910-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-022280-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: Nov 1947

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-10873-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: [ca 1910-1920s]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-022282-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-011708-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [ca 1880s-1920s]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-011709-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.