Delivery (Obstetrics)

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.

Date: 1814

From: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 :Caricatures and cartoons, 1811-1816

By: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830

Reference: B-021-035

Description: Shows Southcott in a birthing chair surrounded by attendants and doctors. A tap protudes from her skirt and water from it is pouring into a tub (`Living Water'). One man is seated by her side bottling the water while doctors examine glasses of it with magnifying glasses. The confinement of Joanna Southcott, fanatic and prophetess, who designated herself `the Lambs wife'. In October 1802 she described herself as `bringing forth to the world, the second Christ'; and in 1813 announced in her "Third book of wonders", that she was to become the mother of Shiloh. In March the following year, at the age of 63, she became ill. Dr Joseph Adams was called in. Of the nine medical men consulted on the case, six agreed that, in a younger woman, the symptoms would indicate approaching maternity. The excitement of Joanna's followers knew no bounds. On 19 November Joanna told Dr Richard Reece that she was `gradually dying' and signed a paper directing him to open her body four days after death. At her request all the gifts prepared for Shiloh were returned and on the 27th December she died. The autopsy revealed the cause of the ambiguous symptoms, assisted, so Reece considered, by deception, a judgement considered at the time to be unnecessarily harsh. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Backing board verso - centre - Typed descriptive text Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, hand-coloured, 280 x 364 mm

Date: 30 January 1991 - 30 Jan 1991

From: Neonatal Nursing Oral History Project

By: Wilkening, Noelene Jill, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0131/04

Description: Noelene Jill Wilkening born Hamilton and spent early years at Eureka. Talks about twin sisters and considers twins upbringing was different from own. Explains effect of having families of `two totally different backgrounds' - father, Scots Protestant descent, slightly austere, while mother was Irish Catholic working class with a zest for life. Describes nursing training in Auckland and obstetric training at Thames Hospital. Mentions duties; rates of pay; career aspirations. Reference to Sister Jean Twist. Outlines treatment for mothers once they were admitted to hospital and describes delivery position (childbirth). Other areas discussed include: role of husband; length of stay in hospital; circumcision; level of competence in mothercraft; attitudes to single mothers and handling of babies with congenital malformations. Gives details of births of own children. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Penelope A Dunkley Venue - 10 Temple St, Meadowbank, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004605-004607; OHLC-001699-001701 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0798.

Date: 1 Oct 1999 - 01 Oct 1999

From: Nursing biographies - Wellington Polytechnic, 1973-1998

By: McMahon, Eve, active 1973-2001

Reference: OHInt-0599/05

Description: Eve McMahon recalls joining the first comprehensive nursing class at Wellington Polytechnic in 1973. Refers to previous experiences at University and as a Hospital Nurse Aide at Nelson. Discusses experiences on the ward at Wellington Hospital as a student. Refers to psychiatric nursing experience in third year at Porirua Hospital. Talks about obstetric experience and notes to be an obstetric nurse in the hospital based programme there was an expectation that a student would do five deliveries and the first year comprehensive student had the same expectation. Refers to the difference in the way they were treated and notes the surprise when she returned a decade later as a tutor that the same battle was being fought between hospital based nursing students and comprehensive students. Refers to different medals on graduation which set them visibly apart. Discusses experience after graduation - Midwifery training at St Helen's, Wellington; return to university and completing Bachelor of Arts in Psychology; night duty on the Acute Spinal Unit at St John of God, Christchurch and Urology Clinic, at Wellington Hospital. Refers to `under the microscope' experience of a polytechnic graduate. Recalls return to Polytechnic to teach in the Maternal and Infant Unit of the course. Discusses the Curriculum and refers to Callister Roy's stress adaptation model. Recalls Fellowship from World Health Organisation (WHO) to complete Masters in Health Personnel Education at University of New South Wales. Discusses the beginning of the use of computers in nursing and notes that like all prototypes it had flaws. Refers to work with Margaret Whinerey towards developing clearer documentation for all courses, pre NZQA being established. Refers to the Public Sector Reform and accountability. Mentions visit with Margaret Connor to Alverno College in Milwaukee, USA. Refers to the development of the Degree (BA) programme and the change to the Education Act. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Venue - Massey University Wellington Campus Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009773 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3252.

Date: 21 May 2000

From: Nursing biographies - Wellington Polytechnic, 1973-1998

By: Connor, Margaret Jean, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0599/04

Description: Margaret Jean Connor (Mackle) born Kaikoura 1941. Recalls training as a nurse at Christchurch Hospital 1960-1963, followed by a year staffing at Kaikoura Cottage Hospital, with the advantage of maternity experience. Talks about obstetric experience, both then and later on, returning from overseas and decision to do midwifery training at the new St Helen's Hospital in Newtown, Wellington. Refers to archival records recently discovered at St Helen's. Describes overseas experience while working briefly at the `Florence Nightingale Hospital for Genteel Women of Limited Means'. Talks about enjoyment of midwifery training and doing 20 deliveries. Recalls being encouraged to attend S.A.N.S (School of Advanced Nursing). Mentions Bea Salmon, Jocelyn Perry, Sally Shaw and Rita McEwen. Talks about her awakened political consciousness and returning to Wellington Hospital as Head of Prelim school, teaching basic skills. Discusses study at Victoria University during three pregnancies, gaining a Bachelor in Education. Mentions Margaret Shetland and Alice Fieldhouse. Talks about involvement with NZNO (New Zealand Nurses Organisation) and is currently chairperson of NZNO Education Trust. Recalls taking a back seat with three young children and going back to practice in District Nursing. Refers to cottages in Findlay Terrace. Backgrounds decision to return to Polytechnic, sharing child minding with husband and paid help. Recalls changes in 1992 when Education Act had changed, the development of the Degree programme and realisation that she needed to do Masters. Outlines her study programme and refers to involvement with Merian Litchfield in a nurse case management project. Graduated M.A with Distinction in 1995 and refers to Thesis - `The Web of Relationship'. Discusses the Diploma of Nursing versus the Bachelor of Nursing Degree. Talks about changes generally and refers to strike for higher wages just before she left. Compares salary while working at polytechnic to hospital salary. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Venue - Massey University Wellington Campus Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009759-009760 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3242.

Date: 01 Dec 2000

From: Nursing biographies - Wellington Polytechnic, 1973-1998

By: White, Gillian, active 1951-2000

Reference: OHInt-0599/18

Description: Professor Gillian (Gill) White talks about personal experiences and motivation for choosing midwifery as a career. Recalls motivation to help unmarried mothers. Describes her training in midwifery in Dover, Southern England; a Clinical Educators Course at the Royal College of Midwives in London; study for a Midwifery Tutors Diploma at a university in Guildford, Surrey, and becoming a teaching district midwife for a couple of years before coming to New Zealand in 1975. Explains that despite having a Midwifery Teaching Diploma, there was little opportunity for use of these skills in New Zealand and could only practice under the direct supervision of a doctor or nurse, so was jobless for six months. Talks about circumstances leading to position as teacher in undergraduate programme [St Helen's Hospital] and refers to Glenda Simpson, a senior New Zealand midwife at National Women's Hospital, Auckland and meeting with Judith Christensen. Mentions that St Helen's Hospital used the Public Hospital for gynaecological experience and for the neo natal experience for students. Refers to closure of St Helen's. Discusses involvememt with the midwives section of the New Zealand Nurses Association (NZNA) becoming president of the Wellington section for midwives and national president for two years. Talks about her push for midwifery education to be brought into the tertiary sector and for a separation of Midwifery from Nursing. Moved to Auckland to the Auckland Institute of Technology (ATI) and talks about situation there. Refers to the Home Birth Association who were lobbying for midwifery independence. Mentions the commencement of the College of Midwives in 1990. Continues the theme of own education and move into research, completing her PhD in 1991. Refers to the 1979 Amendment of the Nurses' Act. Talks about the withdrawal of GPs from obstetric practice. Also talks about own experience as a midwife in community practice doing home births. Discusses the benefits to her personally of wearing a uniform. Refers to MA thesis, `Towards Autonomy: An Examination of Midwifery Education in New Zealand 1990' and PhD thesis, `Social and Sexual Boundaries in Doctor Patient Relationships'. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Venue - Massey University Wellington, Wellington Campus Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009776 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3255.

Date: 10 Nov 2000

From: Little Company of Mary Oral History Project

By: Tipou, Palu (Sister), 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0601/07

Description: Sister Lusia Tupou born in Tonfa in village of Houma, on Tonga Tapu, 1946. Recalls family background, schooling run by SMSM sisters (Missionary sisters of the Society of Mary) and decision to come to New Zealand in 1966 and entering the convent of the Little Company of Mary (LCM) in 1968. Discusses the different stages of training including canonical year (spiritual year) and commencement of community nurse training, an eighteen months course. After final profession returned to Tonga 1974. Describes difficulties of setting up clinic and convent and opening of clinic in 1975. Recalls being the fourth congregation to open in Tonga but the only nursing one. Talks about the long hours, seeing 100, sometimes nearly 200 patients a day. Describes conditions in the homes in which babies were delivered. Recalls going to the Philippines in 1984 on a course and contacting Hepatitis. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Ann Trotter Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009402-009403 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. 3 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3043.

Date: 2 Nov 2000 - 02 Nov 2000

From: Nursing biographies - Wellington Polytechnic, 1973-1998

By: Calvert, Irene, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0599/15

Description: Irene Calvert (nee Turnbull) born Tyneside, England 1941. Recalls training as a State Registered Nurse at Newcastle General Hospital, 1959-1962, followed by paediatrics in the same hospital and working as a charge nurse in Oncology. Came to New Zealand in 1974 and talks about experience at the Hutt Hospital on a surgical ward, fitting work around two small children with no family support. Recalls studying at Wellington Polytechnic in 1983 for Advanced Diploma with Maternal and Infant option. Discusses clinical experience in the community; work at Wellington Women's Hospital and Hutt Hospital; experience teaching the Obstetric module of the undergraduate programme (Nursing Diploma) at Wellington Polytechnic and experience as an independent midwife in practice in the Hutt area. Talks about the Domino Group. Talks about daughter's progress as a midwife and ethic of her daughter gaining experience with her mother - both mother and daughter doing their Masters degree at Massey, doing same papers. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Venue - Massey University Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009757 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3240.

Date: 13 Dec 1993

From: Great Barrier Island Oral History Project

By: Howie, Ivan Philip, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0104-32

Description: Ivan Philip Howie, born in China 1941, parents medical missionaries. Was prisoner of the Japanese for 3 years and came to New Zealand in 1951. Topics discussed include: early visits to Orama Christian Community (GBI); being in Thailand with World Vision in 1980; buying practice [medical] in Great Barrier Island from Dr Diana Nash; medical facilities and community efforts at fundraising to build new centre; advantages of home delivery births; importance of airfield; emergencies over the years and first aid courses; changes in telephone system and recent teleconference courses. Recalls being called upon for emergency dental work, emergency vet, and conducting funerals and weddings. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Helen Jordan Venue - Medical Centre, Claris Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012392 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4227. Search dates: 1941 - 1993

Date: 20 Dec 1993

From: Great Barrier Island Oral History Project

By: Robertson, Adele Mariea, 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0104-43

Description: Adele Mariea Robertson born Thames 1952. Backgrounds moving to Great Barrier Island Jan 1985 as public nurse. Talks about the pressures, stress from long working hours, home births and community spirit. Refers to woman with homeopathic remedies. Interviewer(s) - Helen Jordan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012407 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4243. Search dates: 1993

Date: 26 May 2005

By: Dunkley, Penelope Anne, 1935-

Reference: OHColl-0777-01

Description: Margaret Liley was born 1928 at Te Kuiti. Describes parents background, her early childhood living on a farm, farming activites and growing food. Mentions the Depression. Talks about schooling at Te Kuiti District High School, boarding at Waikato Diocesan School and Epsom Girls Grammar, playing hockey, basketball, cricket and tennis, language subjects of French and Latin and deciding to study medicine. Describes studies, sport and recreation activities at Otago University, living at St Margaret's Residential College, attending Sunday church and holidays at Alexandra. Mentions Rose Eccles, daughter of Sir John Eccles, Professor of Physiology, the work of Roscoe & Purvis, iodine, cobalt, selenium and fluoride deficiency discoveries, Professor Smirk's work on hypertension and introduction of a new Batchelor of Science degree. Describes medical programme at university, number of women selected and women's experience in medical school. Mentions flatting experience, holiday work on farms, shearing sheep, stock work, haymaking and being paid a man's wage. Talks about position after graduation at Taumaranui Hospital, tuberculosis, medical and surgery wards, medical treatment, operations, lack of services and equipment, early days of antibiotics, effects of gastroenteritis in children, renal disease, diabetes and drunkeness. Discusses attitudes towards malpractice. Talks about obstetric practices in medical school, at Taumaranui Hospital, the care of mothers and babies and infant eczema. Describes meeting husband Bill Liley, the birth and nursing care of her first child in Canberrra, Australia. Talks about husband's employment at National Women's Hospital, paediatric work at Cornwall Hospital, Auckland, working with Harvey Carey, Dr James Newman and Jack Mathews, and his work in Australia. Mentions geriatric nursing, stroke patients, new-borns' exchange transfusions, premature birth unit run by Sister MacDonald, pathologist John Sullivan, paediatrics at Princess Mary Hospital, establishment of a special ward for nursing mothers and babies, maternity nurse training and her role as antenatal and postnatal educator. Describes involvement with Plunket, Symonds Street classes for adoptive parents, adoptions attitudes, St Helens Hospital and Bethany, Salvation Army Hospital. Talks about staphylococcus, rehesus factor, locum work, the Auckland Blood Bank, blood collections at a brewery, the wharves and a TipTop factory and conditions in general practice. Mentions Professor Adams, Alice Bush, Ron Caughey, Pud Lindsay, Ham Fox, Marjorie Graninger, Helen Borg, Neil Begg, David Geddes, Ian Hassal, Dr Woodroffe, Paul Malpass, Department of Health and the Nurses and Midwives Board. Talks about running her farm and bringing up a child with Down's Syndrome. Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014441, 01442, 01443, 01444 Quantity: 4 C62 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA 5173.

Date: 1990 - 2002

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: A-366-221/269

Description: Cartoons on health, immigration, emigration, industrial relations, employment, crime and Lotto. 242-246 a series on immigration. Quantity: 49 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black felt pen drawings on paper, sizes vary.

From: Winter, Mark (Chicane), 1958- :Cartoons entered in the 1993 Qantas Media Awards. 1993

By: PSA journal

Reference: H-224-002

Description: Shows a doctor in a delivery room holding a baby and exclaiming "It's a girl!". Refers to Helen Clark becoming the new leader of the Labour Party. Extended Title - Labour pains. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: A4 size bromide of black ink drawing.

Date: 1930s-1940s

Reference: 1/2-127025-F

Description: Dr Doris Clifton Gordon seated at a typewriter. Taken by an unidentified photographer between 1930-1949. This photograph was published in "The Book of New Zealand Women = Ko kui ma te kaupapa", edited by Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams. (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1991.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).