AUDIO
Interview with Elsie Davidson
- Date
- 1982 - 01 Jan 1982
- By
- Davidson, Elsie Ellen, 1911-2001; Bryant, Maida, active 1982
- Reference
- OHInt-0014/044
- Description
Elsie Davidson born Hokitika. Trained for nursing at Westland Hospital, commencing 1931. Talks about: family move to North Island; domestic work undertaken while waiting to go nursing; nursing training; community spirit; work environment; contagious diseases - scarlet fever, diphtheria; isolation ward; peritonitis and drugs used in the 1930s. Recalls treatment of pneumonia; children with bronchitis; lack of ambulances - Newmans buses used. Hospital got first ambulance 1935. Mentions local aeordrome and recalls plane accident ca 1935 when Mrs Newman was killed - pilot badly burned and treated in hospital. Mentions Napier earthquake - felt in Hamilton. Talks about involvement with Nurses Association.
Describes greatest changes in nursing since her day and changes in education. Talks about own two children who died - one had cerebral spinal meningitis which she describes and the other died following an anaesthetic for removal of tonsils.
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Venue - Hokitika
Other - limited biographical information available
Interviewer(s) - Maida Bryant
Venue - Hokitika
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000005; OHLC-000010
Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2166 (hand-written).
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- No public use without written permission of donor Copyright: Copyright held by NZ Nursing Education and Research Foundation
- Access restrictions
- Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission - Access requires written permission of the donor
- Part of
- New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project
- Format
- 1 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 interview(s), 1 Hours Duration, Oral histories
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Interview with Elsie Davidson, printed abstract
Date: 1982
From: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project
Reference: OHA-2166
Description: Interviewer(s) - Maida Bryant Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete (hand-written).
Interview with Elsie Davidson, tape one
Date: 01 Jan 1982
From: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project
Reference: OHC-000005
Description: Arrangement: Tape sequence - tape 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration.