Q.S.R. NUD*IST Power version, revision 4.0. Licensee: Caversham Project. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ Text search for 'Doctor' +++ Searching document int. Allen, Stan... *MP: WHAT ABOUT WHEN SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY WAS SICK? WOULD YOU HAVE THE DOCTOR IN OR WOULD YOUR MOTHER LOOK AFTER WHOEVER IT WAS THAT WAS SICK? 549 SA: Ah, we had the DOCTOR, Williams was mum's doctor. Greg, put the jug on for a cup of tea please would you and um, well mum in her older days, she was bedridden with this damn cancer, [469 inaudible] she looked up, she would lie on the bed, she looked up at the doctor, Doctor Williams, he was nice to her. Her doctor all the way, any show, never told her [474 inaudible]. 551 +++ 2 text units out of 581, = 0.34% +++ Searching document intJ B... MC: IT'S PROBABLY THE EQUIVALENT OF A DOCTORATE NOW. 407 RB: Yes. And he played bowls too. When we went to live in Anderson's Bay that was 1914 and he used to play bowls down on the St Kilda green. You see he wasn't a very well man. He had to be careful. I think he had a duodenal ulcer. I know at one stage he'd been to DOCTORs in Dunedin. He and my mother went over to Sydney and went to a doctor there. Whether he got much satisfaction I don't know. 577 +++ 2 text units out of 777, = 0.26% +++ Searching document int.Mrs JB 1983... JB At home. There was a midwife there and I was a twin. My mother didn't know she was having twins. The first twin was born and she was dead. They had to get in a midwife because I was six weeks premature. My father had to go and get her away out at a film. She was watching a film. The first twin was born with no limbs and she was dead. If it had been nowadays she would have lived. Then the DOCTOR wouldn't come so the midwife did. She arrived and said she thought there was another one coming. 15 JB Well. I went to Caversham School and when I was in Standard One - no I can go back further than that. When I was three I stuck a needle in my eye so I'm blind in one eye now. I had three operations on that eye and they were going to do a fourth one but then they found that I had a heart defect. They didn't do the fourth operation. Anyway when I was about six, in those days they had a DOCTOR and a nurse who came round the school every year and examined every child in the school. I always got singled out. In those days the Sara Cohen School in Rutherford Street was a school for disabled children. It's now for mentally handicapped children, but in those days it was for disabled children. These doctors and nurses in their wisdom decided they would send me there. I was there for four years. I would say there were about thirty children at that school. We had a very basic education. We had to have a rest in the afternoon. We learnt to write and read but we didn't get taught history and geography or anything like that. When I was in Standard Five I was sent back to Caversham School. So I was landed into a big school in Standard Five which was quite devastating. I'll never forget my first day at school back to Caversham they were working with fractions. I didn't know what a fraction was. Anyway I managed to catch up. Then I went to Tech. I wanted to be a school teacher but they decided that I wasn't fit enough so I had to go to Tech. 90 *INT WHEN THERE WAS ILLNESS IN THE FAMILY DID THE DOCTOR GET CALLED? 220 +++ 3 text units out of 535, = 0.56% +++ Searching document int.Boulton, Miss... +++ Searching document int.Mrs RB, & Whitty, J... MB: Oh well we didn't have much access to them, it was only if they were visiting the Parish, like they would come, except the ones that we knew more were the ones that were actually living in the Presbytery next to the College you see. And now and again we'd have to all get tidied up and tidy all your desk, you know, and Bishop Delargey was coming and that was quite an occasion, you know. But as far as having much to do with him, it would be more the clergy that had a lot to do with them, and he would just come along and be at all the break-ups and that, handing out the Christian DOCTOR medals and all those things. We'd see him then and he'd speak to us and give us a direction in the way we should be going and that, you know. So uh ... 529 MB: Later on they said that they think that's why Latin was dropped from the language, because there was too many Catholics were becoming DOCTORs. That's what they said. They dropped the Latin didn't they? 545 MW: You know lots of them have been DOCTORs and got, you know - the ones that went on the academic side, you know, they were all --- they've all done well, haven't they? 875 +++ 3 text units out of 1278, = 0.23% +++ Searching document int.Campbell, William... WC: No, no. It was just something that was never done. [I: no] I haven't got any very firm beliefs on it now, but I got a bottle of brandy in the room there. I suppose it would be six years ago since the oldest boy gave it to me one birthday, I hadn't been too good, and he says, you might make use of that, but it is still in the cupboard. No, none of us had any great interest in it. [I: no] Course, now it's got to the stage in DOCTORing, press's on you not too, you know. It's perhaps forced now. I've no desire. 485 +++ 1 text unit out of 583, = 0.17% +++ Searching document int.Cummings/Manson part1... CC: Yeah, the first one, the first car I ever saw was old DOCTOR Coutrie. Do you remember Doctor Coutrie Jim? Out St Clair. 946 JM: Ah, but there was odd cars, [CC: yeah, there was] I think DOCTOR, I'm trying to think of the Doctor's name, I don't know whether it was Evans, I don't know if it was Evans, I think it was. I think he was about one of the first Doctors in Dunedin, like in the North End, [CC: oh yeah], not the South End, the car and he used to, he didn't drive it himself, he used to have a chauffeur. 969 *I: TALKING ABOUT THE DOCTOR, DID YOU EVER GO AND SEE THE DOCTOR WHEN YOU WERE KIDS? DID YOU EVER GO NEAR A DOCTOR OR THE DOCTOR COME NEAR YOU? NO? 971 CC: Right up till now, I've been to the DOCTOR twice in my life. 973 CC: She says, "Whose your DOCTOR". I says, "I don't know", "Whose your doctor", "I don't know". [002 inaudible] good doctor, he says. She says, "that's all I want to know". I said, "[003 inaudible]. I says "I've never been to a doctor". And yet she wouldn't believe it. [JM: no] "Well", she said "your going on a [004 inaudible] so". She arranged with Gilman to take me over. I'd never been to a doctor. Only for a minor accidents, things like that but no set doctor to, you know, for burns. 981 I: DO YOU REMEMBER A DOCTOR COMING INTO YOUR HOUSE WHEN YOU'RE A KID AT ALL? 983 CC: DOCTOR and midwife, that's all. 1004 I: DOCTOR and midwife for the baby and that was it. 1006 I: DID THE DOCTOR COME BACK TO LOOK AT THE BABIES A WEE BIT, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY'RE STILL SMALL? 1010 JM: I think the, it was a strange thing to say. I think the mothers in our day, nearly were all DOCTORs or midwives themselves. 1018 +++ 10 text units out of 1849, = 0.54% +++ Searching document int.Davidson, Andrew... AD: ... didn't know what to do. (I: yep, uhu) He was a DOCTOR in matter of fact, an officer doctor, didn't know what to do, he was like this. So I took over. 420 AD: He ah, he was regarded very well in Caversham and Mornington, low part of Mornington as a DOCTOR. 520 AD: He didn't pose as one, but was regarded as one, good enough for a DOCTOR and the result was that if we were in trouble we didn't go to a doctor, we rang, we went down to a chemist and got some medicine from him. Told him what was wrong, and got the chemist to give us a bottle of something and that was the end of it. (I: mmm) That was the result, that was the attitude of the people here and it was only on rare occasions that the doctor was called in. 524 MD: Well Andrew, in those days there were very few DOCTORs, (I: yes) very few. 526 I: Some of the old people have told me, one person, some of the old people that I have talked to, told me the first cars they can remember were DOCTORs, that some of the local doctors had cars. 528 AD: Ah, ah, DOCTOR, I can remember that, the doctor, our only doctor my mother ever had we ever, was a man called Cahoon and Cahoon, I think Cahoon was one of the first men to have a doctor/have a car in Dunedin. 532 MD: Well DOCTORs in those days used to have horse and gig to go round, that's the way they travelled. 534 +++ 7 text units out of 734, = 0.95% +++ Searching document int.Delargey, Edward J.... ED: Well they put me up in Wakari. They thought I had TB, the lung of the cancer, you know, the lungs. And this Horace, he said to me: "will you shake hands with me and promise me you'll knock off smoking?" He was the bloody big gun on this chest business you know. I said, "yes". I had a packet of smokes, because the night before Guy - a fellow, Guy, a DOCTOR Guy came out and said: "I'm gonna have a look at you tomorrow down your business" - he told me this. But I was smoking. And he said: "you're smoking!?", he says, "with your condition?" He put the bloody wind up me. And do you know when Horace said that to me next day, about shake hands with me, I did. Smoked those cigarettes and never had one since. 1260 +++ 1 text unit out of 1354, = 0.07% +++ Searching document int.Denford, Frank... FD: No, they did. The people, generally speaking, were very closely, ah, involved, I think that's the word to use, and very, very sympathetic and this of course, I think came out when I mentioned before the concerts and social activities. People came to meet Mrs Applegarter and Mrs Denford and the, even the Rev. Dakin, who was the minister when I was just a boy, he was more than just a formal minister. Although he was a very, clever chap in himself, he was DOCTOR and divinity and also a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. But apart from that, he was a very humble chap and a very scholastic chap, and very approachable. 128 FD: The whole, people right throughout the community. Young and old. I had a bit of an attack of it. I felt pretty ill but of course I wasn't bad enough to, I don't even think that the DOCTOR, but um, where it hit our family was that my sister, I mentioned before with nursing, she was ah, nursing at the public hospital here. She would be, what, in her second or third year of her training and she and her mate, ah, were, when it struck the epidemic, they nursed till they literally fell on their feet. The, my sister she got the flu to the extent so severe that they didn't dare tell her that her mate had died of it, they reckon it would have killed her and um, ah, the, my sister was in a special ward in Nightingale ward, which has just recently been demolished, in the special there and she was delirious for weeks. She was literally blue with tubes in her back, draining off the fluid and ah, they cut her hair off to save it being, having to try and do it, she was so ill. She told us that it had got to the stage that she was so ill and then one day she said, if I don't try and do something about it, I'm going to die and from then she [123 inaudible] so she stuck it out, gradually got better. She'd been that ill, they gave her six months leave of absence afterwards to get over it. Her mate, she was buried over in the Andersons Bay, she's buried over there. And my sister told me, not many years before she died, she died about seven years ago, that so dreaded was the epidemic that the authorities said that on no account were the graves of epidemic victims to be opened for at least 50 years. [LD: help] That's how [LD:serious it was] how the impact was seen as a serious result. 248 +++ 2 text units out of 356, = 0.56% +++ Searching document int.Mr KD F L... KD: The Hall is still there in Albany Street. Just at the top of Albany Street on the left hand side when you're going down. What's in it now? There's some DOCTORs in it now. Oh no, it's a Playhouse Theatre isn't it? 449 +++ 1 text unit out of 694, = 0.14% +++ Searching document int.Mr BD... BD: There was always somebody in the village but of latter years of course, the, had, DOCTORs had flash motor cars and came out to these places. (MC: RIGHT.) Because whenever we wanted a doctor we had to get in from out there and come into town. 35 BD: I was going to tell you in a moment, and they got a taxi driver and come and pick me, and the man said, 'Take him home to Enfield', he says. And he says, 'I think he should go to the hospital'. Oh, he says, 'I'm employing you', he said, 'take him home to Enfield'. Now I was stunned, I was unconscious and got me home to Enfield, then he had to ring up and talk to, the DOCTOR never arrived till next morning and he says I have to go to hospital straight away and I had concussion of the brain and a fractured skull there. I lost my hearing in both ears, this one is still bad. [Hearing aid beeps] Oh, it's objecting. And then I was stuck into hospital and I was there for about a month or six weeks, I had concussion of the brain and a fractured skull, one ear came back and the other one didn't. 45 BD: I was down town the other day and he wanted to know if I was going home. I said, 'Yes, I'll run you home', but I had arranged to see a DOCTOR, so I didn't. But some bosses are good and others aren't. This boss I had in Dunedin that I was telling you about, you, never had one like him. I used to take my breakfast to work with me and I, one morning I got up, my wife thinks this is funny, she used to have to leave me a bag in the kitchen, ready for me to pick up when I went out in the morning and breakfast, all sandwiches and things like that and I arrived at work one morning and I was sitting there with the other man and I opened me sandwiches and here was a paper bag filled of potatoes peelings and everything. I'd picked up the wrong one. She'd wrapped all the potato peelings in bags and was going to put them in the rubbish bin outside the door, she left them on the table and I'd got my breakfast things, and I opened it at work and I never heard the end of it from the blokes. 979 +++ 3 text units out of 987, = 0.30% +++ Searching document int.Mrs MD... MD: Well, people had to be neighbourly, if you can un - only take it on a wide term, because everyone didn't have a telephone, and if there was any sickness of the house they had to either ask the chemist or their shop- keeper or, or somebody they knew might speak for them, or else go where there was a phone. You couldn't just - I know [indistinct] they had to, they sent away to their own DOCTOR was overseas and they had to go to the chemist in, in Caversham, in the main street it was, and ask him whether they could ring up the hospital and send someone out because they thought we might need an ambulance. I'll never forget that ambulance. You'd have two horses, high steppers, big fellows, and they raced those into town ... oh, right into the city where the hospital was from Caversham, that was no small ride. And sure enough, I did have [indistinct] and so I had to be operated on, and going in there I said, 'I think you must like me after all, mum because I saw you crying'. She ... , 'sorry little so and so', she said, 'I was crying for myself because the roof, the roof was off the house, the, the - it was raining, you didn't have a clean nightie left and the baby was bawling her head off'. There wasn't crying for me at all. And for years I thought mum was crying because I was ill. Oh, well, it wasn't as bad as that, but it must have driven everybody dilly with all that wrong. There was a canvas pulled over half the house because they were renovating it. And of course ... 1067 MD: He was a, a [indistinct] of ours, and I reckoned he wasn't so good and when we realised we went down there, she lifted up the lids of his eyes and he had no colour in them, they were all white. She said, 'Whip round to Dr Butler as quick as you can and tell him', so down I went and his wife answered the door, and she said, 'Oh, I'm very sorry, the DOCTOR has just finished his afternoon session'. 'Well', I said, 'this wee fellow is not too well', and I said 'the Plunket nurse sent me around'. She said, 'Wait a minute and I'll get hold of him then', and so off she toddled upstairs and down he came with a coat down over his pyjamas. 2456 MD; She was ill too, the same things was the matter with her. The DOCTOR didn't bother attending to her properly, he said, when you've got rid of the course he said, you'll be better, well, with a coming baby. 2466 +++ 3 text units out of 2484, = 0.12% +++ Searching document int.Donaldson, Mr... D Oh yes. I saw photographs there of the old school. My brother went to war of course. We were both there. I had a lot of fun when I was over in England. I got transferred. I was medically unfit for a start. I had a slight strain of the heart through long distance running when I used to go out running with the varsity men. I was only a college boy at the time. However when my brother enlisted for the war I thought I would too. I enlisted but I was turned down through that. Then I was transferred to Geraldine and as soon as I got up there I enlisted again. I knew the DOCTOR, he was a big fellow. Dr Harrison, I used to play tennis with him. He told me what it was. He said I had my age with me and if I looked after myself I'd grow out of it. So I looked after myself and I did grow out of it. But I was called up in the second lot so that's how I managed to get away eventually. But it kept me well behind. Then before that I was in the Territorials and had stripes. I thought to myself that I wasn't going to be any private in this outfit, I'll let somebody else do the work and I'll do the ordering. So I eventually before very long found myself with many stripes on. I kept those stripes When we got to England I found out I had to get from the infantry to the Divisional Company where I wanted to get to because that's where I was trained in Dunedin you see before the War. All my cobbers we all got into this one company and we trained as signallers. We enjoyed our lives in this company. From then on where did we go from there? I was going overseas one night with the infantry and they called me into the office and said I might as well take my pack off because I was being transferred to the ??. So I went to Stevenige. I found out after I got there that the signallers from Egypt went straight to France instead of coming to the depot. So actually we were kept in the depot at Stevenige for months and months. So I actually never saw any war. But I saw plenty of fun. We had a concert party there and we used to put on shows for three nights with packed houses every night. I had a friend who was an excellent accompanist. We were invited everywhere. Being signallers the officers didn't mind where we went. In fact I had almost an open pass and we went everywhere. There was one place that I would like to have gone to and that was two men came out from London and asked if I would sing a sacred solo at the opening of a new church in London. Now that would have been a great honour to New Zealand that a New Zealand soldier was asked to sing at the opening of a new church in London. But instead of that I was sent overseas so I missed it. But we had a lovely time there. Now you bombard me with some more questions. 55 +++ 1 text unit out of 141, = 0.71% +++ Searching document int.Duncan, Dorothy... DD: Well he started off in the pay department and he went on from there until he was in charge of it down at the new building in Hanover Street. He was the salaries clerk they called him. Then when they changed things around a bit they had different secretaries to different departments and he became the establishment secretary that had to write to all the new health surgeons. When they were wanting a DOCTOR and writing about an appointment my husband would have to write the letters and do all that sort of thing. He worked for them for 40 years. 311 Oh, but the start of that was I got a ring at home or at least at my neighbour's place one day from the hospital. It was to say that the DOCTOR didn't want me to go in and see her or us in the meantime. The grandparents could go but we weren't to go. And so I rang up the doctor Begg who was a children's doctor and we had Lorraine under him too. I said, 'well I'm going in to see her today and I'll tell her that we're not coming back but I'm not going to leave a little girl of six and not explain to her.' 468 So I went in and I hadn't been at the bed very long when the sister took me into the DOCTOR's office. He growled at me for going against his wishes and the rest of it. I wasn't very - stood up for myself very well, but I did for her. I said, 'if you think I'm going to leave my little girl and not tell her why and just desert her, I wouldn't do that. I've told her and she knows and that's all right. But I wouldn't have done it without telling her.' 470 DD: No. They didn't know themselves. They were clutching at straws I think. Eventually you see after she'd gone through school and looked like a little waif in all her school pictures she went to Teachers' College. It did seem as although when she was wanting to be good it would come on her you see. So she was at the dinner for the end of the year and she couldn't eat anything. When she did she had to leave the table and she got so fed up that she said to her father, 'will you get me into see a DOCTOR. I'm sick of this.' And so Bill got her into one of the specialists and he had her x-rayed and all the rest of it. 482 DD: I don't really remember. I don't think I ever played on the road. I had quite a bit of ground around here. I had a wee summerhouse down the bottom of the garden there that we used to play in. There's a bit of a story about that one day too. My mother came down the path to see us. I was playing with Beth this afternoon and Mum came down the path. Here was Beth stripped naked and I was examining her. Mum said, 'what on earth are you doing?' I said, 'we're playing lady DOCTORs.' She said something or other about Beth and I said, 'it's all right Mum, I've had my turn.' We used to have a lady doctor around school I think. 504 +++ 5 text units out of 645, = 0.78% +++ Searching document int.Fountain, Kathleen Vere... KF: And I had a - ooh, yes, I had friends who were Quakers. The DOCTOR and Mrs Earstricher who came here from Germany in 1938. 876 +++ 1 text unit out of 2264, = 0.04% +++ Searching document int.Gilbert, Mary... G No, I never saw a DOCTOR. I think he was coming once and I think I had a sore throat. I remember jumping over the fence so I never saw him. I don't think I ever had a doctor until I was married. 55 G No she was a nurse in a DOCTOR's rooms. 226 +++ 2 text units out of 410, = 0.49% +++ Searching document int.Mrs MG... MG: Yes. My father was a DOCTOR and it wasn't like today's practice. He had the front of the house connected to our house but completely separate. It was a surgery and a waiting room because he was a doctor. That was the part there in the front. So people just got off the tram. We didn't use that gate. 21 MG: I'll tell you one of the things that interested me. I suppose we were privileged children in the days of the 1930s because my father was a DOCTOR. Not that he had perhaps much cash because he used to treat patients free sometimes. He had Lodge patients too. He used to go out to Green Island I think on a Wednesday, I can't remember and then a Lodge in Caversham. I'm not quite sure how the payment was then but they were sort of free patients and I supposed they paid for the Lodge would they? 91 He never got any peace because it's not like leaving a medical centre and another DOCTOR takes over. People must have their own doctor. He used to curse all these people having babies. He'd built this place out at Waihola and he wouldn't have a telephone out there. He had a few hours out there in peace and quiet on a Saturday afternoon or perhaps a Sunday. But if there was a baby expected he couldn't go because they must have their own doctor. 111 MG: No. She did her course and then she stayed on and got a job. She thought it was great because America was quite liberated. Women with qualifications were treated in their own rights. Not what it is in New Zealand. When my father died she came back. That would be 1964. When she got here well she's better qualified than some of the - I think she got a DOCTORate in History or something. You'll have to ask her. She was better qualified but when she came back to New Zealand she was treated too old though she wasn't all that old. There were older professors in the university, men. She was better qualified than some there but they weren't keen on taking her. So she went in as a school inspectorate around Christchurch. She stayed with my mother after my father died. It's her story so she can tell you more. Once they leave you don't have much contact with your sisters until they get older. 157 MG: He was a Minister. My sister has gone back and taken some photos. He didn't come out as a settler, my father's father. He left Edinburgh. He was a Presbyterian Minister in the New Hebrides which it was called in those days. He went to Antrim and he was a missionary. But he was trained as a DOCTOR as well as a Minister right. His brother had gone out first but died. Then he stayed there on the island of Antrim but his wife got malaria and died. It was his newly wedded wife. 194 I've had a number of failed marriages but never mind, it's my history, isn't it. But I thought I'd go to the people and ask the DOCTOR to help my husband who was sick. This was the second marriage after 23 years. But this is not going on tape, did I say. Well after experience in Presbyterianism I came to the conclusion that Christianity is important but it becomes churchianity with the different church clubs and I really don't want to be a part of it. I wouldn't say I'm agnostic but... 230 MG: A DOCTOR those days wasn't one with any time to himself. He was on call twenty-four hours a day. People wanted the doctor when they asked and my father really had no time to himself. He always took an interest in his family but he never really had a day off, did he? He never really had time. He enjoyed his patients and his patients were his life. He never told any nasty things but we'd often hear about someone. 251 It was family visiting in those days. It involved the whole family. In these days you are a number and you go to a medical centre and get the DOCTOR who is there. It's very impersonal. But these people, their lives depended on confiding with the doctor. He knew what was going on in the family and probably why she got sick. You only need to go into people's homes, whereas these days doctors may not know any conditions about what's happening and just hand out pills. 252 My mother was a very liberated person in a way for her age compared with her friends because she helped run the business with my father. She was the mediator, she often gave advice on the phone to patients who were worried until my father could call. I can hear her when they would often ask her what to do. She wasn't being a DOCTOR but she would often do more than just give an appointment. 253 MC: SOUNDS LIKE A USEFUL TRAINING FOR SOMETHING. YOU TALKED TO ME A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ABOUT THE KIND OF FEELING THERE WAS ABOUT YOU BEING THE DOCTOR'S CHILDREN. HOW DID YOU PICK THAT UP? 261 But I do think that the visiting of a Plunket nurse to some people is an absolutely essential thing. I mean I've done a lot of welfare work and when I go into homes - I never go into the good homes. What I see, if the DOCTOR knew that he'd know why the baby had gastroenteritis so much. You see the baby's bottle is sitting there in the sunshine with the flies on the teat and then it goes into the baby's mouth. I think it's a reassurance but it used to bug me. 372 But I do think a nice kindly Plunket nurse must be of great benefit because think of all the people like - well, young people these days. How they cope. They're probably the youngest in the family and have never seen anything done. Hygiene - well if you'd been brought up in a home like I have, a DOCTOR's home with a mother a nurse, the sterility of nursing training wasn't anything because it was all carried out at home. Even to making beds, we had to make them properly with mother as kids. When I did my nursing training I just felt we'd made beds at a little six weeks prelim course and it just seemed to me so fundamental. But then some people didn't. I think for the average ordinary person, even a person who would know, it's a reassurance. They don't talk to the doctors like that. 374 I'm great for a home visit because I think there's so much seen in general. The way a person keeps their house. I mean I've been round to homes where - I did Crippled Children's work too. There was another child sick with asthma and oh yes the pills were on the mantelpiece but the child's outside in the rain in the winter around Taupo. And this is going to cure it. Our treatment at home, plenty of fluid and to bed because we didn't have the drugs. That was my father's treatment. But you won't get any common sense advice from the DOCTOR at a Medical Centre these days. Take these pills home and that will fix it. As I say, this child's pills were sitting there and the child is outside half dressed in the cold and the wet. 375 MG: No he wasn't brought into the dining room and that sort of thing. I wouldn't say - my mother and father in spite of that sort of thing they weren't, um, snobbish people really. For instance, my father really was quite a loner. He wasn't even all that friends with his colleagues. You know, we didn't have much because we were in a, people went through, friends that he had that went through Otago University like Dr Strain and things they were all in High Street where all the DOCTORs were. My father was out in the ordinary suburb. 478 I don't know whether very many DOCTORs were practising from their homes in ordinary suburbs in those days because I had to go to High Street for the dentist. If you wanted an x-ray you went to High Street to Mr Gardner in what's the name of the chambers? I've forgotten. They called them The Chambers. They had a big lot of steps and you went up and there was doctors and dentists and radiologists all working in one department in Princes Street. But it was a bit like Harley Street London, High Street Dunedin. 479 +++ 15 text units out of 484, = 3.1% +++ Searching document int.Mrs RG... RG: Well men living together in big numbers like they did in the war- time would be, to me, the opportunity for homosexuality to develop. Since then the homes of the world have been rocked by single parents who are - I had a friend, it wasn't my friend. He was brought to the house. A friend of a friend. They stayed here and they were homosexuals. He said quite openly, he said he was over-mothered. He was brought up in a one family, one parent family. This man was a medical DOCTOR. He quite openly said that he was sure it was because he'd been over-mothered. Mind you, this is 40 years ago I'm talking about. But nowadays they're looking on it as an inherited complaint or something. But ah that's just you know how these things develop. I'm quite sure that it'll swing the other way again. It will go back to two parent families and ah the media's making the most of whatever bit of gossip it can get hold of I'd say. 956 +++ 1 text unit out of 1829, = 0.05% +++ Searching document int.Hall, Frederick... FH:Not really .. when you went to a DOCTOR you didn't have to sit like now .. what people did die of was the things you would die of today ..consumption was very common in fact I've just been reading a book now ...and had a lot of diptheria ...injected me for tetanus we used to have a lot of tetanus and another thing blood poisoning was common ... rusty iron and things like that ..the country got bigger and you had all those sexual diseases like venereal disease and you had them ... so you can see ... had chickenpox, the kids had a lot of ... like in the school ...some of the classes at Forbury were 120, the teachers would go mad today and the children were better educated then than they are today. They wrote better, they spelt better, they spoke better and .. you didn't get to the high school very easily either. They used to have an extra standard for the people good enough to go to high school and if you wanted to get in ....pay for it ... technical schools and then you got three years free if you were lucky and ... you had to take three subjects. There was nothing so easy and that's why ... like when I look back ... 94 +++ 1 text unit out of 313, = 0.32% +++ Searching document int.Harris, Bill & Frances... WH: But you got, you know, concession on medicine and things like that, and your DOCTOR - 1336 WH: There was in the Forrester one. My mother was a forrester. It was called, I was in Court Enterprise and muhm was in Woodlands Pride and it did help because when we were young she got, you know, I think the DOCTOR free and also certain medicines were free. 1704 WH: Well cars, it was only people you know that had real high positions, managers, DOCTORs or professional people, there weren't many cars in the town really. Ah, even up untill about 1930 there were stilll a lot of carriers with their horse and cart, like Billy Wilkie and the one that's in the museuhm, Larkings, there weren't too many people with cars. 2364 WH: And the beauty in those days if you went to your DOCTOR you never, never cost you anything. 3016 FH: It wasn't really known then as TB but we asked our DOCTOR why the gland had to be removed. He said that would be TB with unpasteurised milk, [MC: RIGHT, RIGHT.] you see. 3451 +++ 5 text units out of 4112, = 0.12% +++ Searching document int.Harrison, Ellen... Well then she got a bit bored with croquet because um she had gone as far as she could go and one or two of her friends had died and she decided she would play golf and because she had such an accuracy gained in the, you know, lining up the balls for croquet and things, she was an excEHt putter and she got her golf handicap down from 36 down to 21 in a very, very short while. So, she played at a small, well St Clair first, and then she joined, she wanted to get onto a flatter club because by this time she was getting about 60 I suppose, then abit older and um so she joined a small club that played on Chisholm Park called Onslow and then Onslow was amalgamated with Chisholm Park and she played for Chisholm Park, they played for a trophy, Haliday trophy which is at Chisholm Park still and um and then she developed a bit of high blood pressure and the DOCTOR said that she should give up the golf, which I thought was stupid, but of course my father was into bowls by this time and he said, ah rushed into town and brought her a set of bowls and got her to get clothes and everything, joined her up with St Clair bowling club, she said it was the most boring game, but however, she played bowls and she was a good, and eventually enjoyed it but you know, it's not the same as golf, it's just entirely different. 459 +++ 1 text unit out of 596, = 0.17% +++ Searching document int.Horder, Vera May... +++ Searching document int.Ingram, C.W.N.... CI: I've always had uncles or aunts living in this street, the next street or round about and I spent so much time in the factory I seem to be more part of Caversham than anywhere else in New Zealand and this particular site I have everything that is required for a person living)duplicated. At the end of this street and down here at Forbury corner, butcher, baker, candlestick maker, chemist, DOCTOR, everything, there is a supermarket, butcher, greengrocer the whole lot and I can choose either end to go, but I go to Caversham rather than Forbury corner. 1376 +++ 1 text unit out of 1385, = 0.07% +++ Searching document int.Isaac, Bill & Alice... BI: Well I think it was, he was glad of the company but also the lodge was hospital, ah DOCTOR and hospital, you paid your fees, you had free medical for your wife and family. 651 +++ 1 text unit out of 1601, = 0.06% +++ Searching document int.Jeffries, Margaret... MJ: And all you - you know, if you hurt your leg you might have to go back again, because then when I went back to the DOCTOR one time, he said, that's all the things I should have been doing. Playing sports and riding bikes, but once again, they didn't tell you that ... what to do, because I didn't really want to be ... uhm ... I didn't really want to be back in ho - look, hospital. 985 MJ: After he had gone back to Hillside he used to come home and he was cough, cough, cough, cough, coughing and the, the DOCTOR didn't like this and they though it was the dust of the turnings that were ma - making the bomb passages or something out there and all the dust, and they thought it was that, he was into hospital - and I don't know how long he was in there ... and that - in those days you could only visit Mondays ... no, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and, and Sundays, but I think mum was allowed in this, this Friday he, he, dad said, you know, I want you to bring me some Aspros, you see, he said, I want to take some Aspros, mum said I can't do that. And I'm not sure whether it was ... it was the Monday the lady from the shop came up and said that dad had died. He had had a - oh, was it Friday, oh, I don't know now, and he had, uhm, they, they thought he might have had fluid on his legs, but every time they pressed it, they - it didn't leave a mark, and he - this morning they washed him and sat him up in bed, and I'm not sure if he had his breakfast or not, and then he just collapsed. So it had to do perhaps more to - and he had an enlarged heart ... and one side of it had collapsed. This is - this was what it was. 1181 +++ 2 text units out of 1427, = 0.14% +++ Searching document int.Mrs HJ... HJ: What was his name ... terrible how you forget ... his father was a tailor in Dunedin, but they were a strict Jewish family, lived on - in Prince Albert Road, St. Kilda, what was his name, he became a DOCTOR I think, or a radiologist. They came from Mexico, I think. 356 HK: We had a hospital and a children's home. You wouldn't remember - do - would you, do you know the North family? There was Dr Charles North and then his son was a DOCTOR, he was my father's doctor. 572 +++ 2 text units out of 1579, = 0.13% +++ Searching document int.Jory, Rita & Wellman, Louise... RJ: When I was at Abbotsford she was quite good. I used to get her every week. But then when I got in, like when I lived up Central Otago I was ten miles from Lawrence. Of course you couldn't get a nurse to come that far very often. She'd come perhaps once a month for a little while, not very long. Of course I didn't have a first baby or anything. Well I went up to live up there when Ainslie was three weeks old and she was the latest. So it wasn't like having a first baby. So we didn't see a great deal of them which I didn't mind. And the DOCTOR too was hard to get. 1081 RJ: No they were a help especially when you had your first baby because you really didn't know much. I went and spent a week with my mother after the first son. I'd had a very bad time. In those days you stayed at [indistinct], a private home in St Kilda. You usually stayed a fortnight but my DOCTOR wanted me to stay three weeks and I didn't want to stay three weeks. So he asked me if I was going home and I said no I was going to stay with my mother. Mum wasn't very good at that sort of thing, was she? 1101 RJ: In the infant room I had an abscess in my tooth. I had the tooth out and I used to cry at night with toothache. My mother never did anything about it this particular time. It got that bad in the finish that she got the DOCTOR. He said I'd have to have an operation. So she didn't fancy me going into the hospital so it was done in our house in Fitzroy Street. We had to get darning paper and Dr Russell, Richard his name was, did the operation. Dr Fitchett gave the anaesthetic. Chloroform it was. My grandmother she was the nurse. 1257 RJ: Oh no. But I was operated on in the house. The next day the DOCTOR came out to see me. I never had any stitches in. I remember waking up. Some of my bone must have gone you know, they had to scrape the bone. I've lost quite a bit of my jawbone. 1261 +++ 4 text units out of 1261, = 0.32% +++ Searching document int.Lumb, Janet Stewart... *JL: In the Manse, at, um, Caversham. I belong to the Caversham Presbyterian Church. Why it was in the Manse, I was going to have it in the church, but this oldest sister of mine had a nervous breakdown at the time, and I went to the DOCTOR to see about it, and I said, would I postpone the wedding. 'No', she said, 'don't do that.' And she said, 'Just go and have a quiet wedding.' 223 MC: IS THIS THE DOCTOR SAYING THIS? 225 MC: WAS THAT UNUSUAL TO HAVE A WOMAN DOCTOR? 235 JL: Well, oh, there were a few around in those days. There was a Dr. Marion White, and there was Dr. Seideberg. There weren't very many lady DOCTORs in those days, those are all I can remember, you know, but I don't know how she came to be sent there. I think it might have been through some friends. They thought that she might do her a lot of good. She was a lovely woman, but um ... 237 And then the last time we thought it was a breakdown again, she was round about 50 then, I got a ... she'd been to this DOCTOR and that doctor and that, you know, and in the end I got her to this psychiatrist, he was down at the hospital, and, course I was married by this time, and, ah, I interviewed him. Though, though she did complain of a pain this time, but she was still in a depression too. But we never took much notice of the pain. Anyway she was put into hospital, and under the psychiatrist, and I had to go and see him, and he told me then that she was complaining of this pain and they would have to investigate that, which they did. And they found it was cancer. And they operated, but sewed her up again, and they gave her five months, which that was all she lived. 275 +++ 5 text units out of 723, = 0.69% +++ Searching document int.Maher, Hilda... +++ Searching document int.Marlow, Kevin... KM: No. Yes I can remember --- oh I say involved in the activities - but one of the best things about them - before Social Welfare came in as it's known today as security - the Hibernians - the Friendly Society Pharmacy. Down the corner of Moray Place and Princes Street. And you came with your prescriptions, virtually cost nothing because you were a member - you used your card and your got some - -- that went on for years. But that's gone now. That was very much appreciated by the members in those days because all the fees you've got to pay to DOCTORs and prescriptions and things like that and there's no government support for you. 265 +++ 1 text unit out of 726, = 0.14% +++ Searching document int.Mr LM... LM: Oh yes. Yes, yes. You'd see the occasional person who would be daring enough to use a little powder. [AM: whew! oooh!] And then, some very, very subdued lipstick, earrings - uh-oh. Careful! Yes. So yes, times have changed, Shaun. Whether they're for the better or the worse I don't know. They are saying we are more liberated. Well if you went to church now at the Chapel, you'd find 90% of them dressed as if they were going to the beach. But OK, if that's the way they want to go, fine. I don't, I still wear something formal. I don't always wear my suit, but I always wear a collar and tie, because I always have. And I went to work everyday and wore a collar and tie, so I don't see why I should get undressed to go to church. We've got a couple of DOCTORs in the fellowship and you know, when you see them on Sunday, as I say, they're dressed for the beach or going round emptying the rubbish, that's what they look like. Whereas you see them in the hospital they are spik and span. You know. White coats and collars and ties on. I always think there's an anomaly there somewhere, that they would get undressed to go to church. 1135 LM: . . . . . . Not really. No. . . . Uhm. See from a church point of view we didn't have a Pastor. Our hierarchy didn't go like that. There were seven or eight men who were elders should have been exemplary. And were. In my day anyway. You would go to them for advice on all sorts of things. Not just spiritual things. They were always available and we had a cross-section of working force it was pretty good. Accountants, dentists, DOCTORs, plumbers, carpenters, you know we had the lot. But as to one specific role model, no, I think we were each expected to grow up as the previous generation had left their example. Like my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father, I would be expected to follow in their footsteps, even if they didn't say anything. It's felt rather than telt. You know. 1696 +++ 2 text units out of 1842, = 0.11% +++ Searching document int.Maskell part 1... MW:DO YOU KNOW WHETHER IT WAS A MIDWIFE OR DOCTOR THAT ATTENDED OR A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY? 19 RM:I think it was a DOCTOR. I'm not sure but it probably was. 21 RM:Well no see he was on the crew as it were, the ship's company rather than, he wasn't connected with the medical side of it, he wasn't a DOCTOR .. he was on the crew of the hospital so that doesn't make him - it does now. . .decorations that people got. 156 +++ 3 text units out of 722, = 0.42% +++ Searching document int.Melville, Colin... MC: WHAT DID THEY DO ABOUT THAT? WERE YOU RACED OFF TO THE DOCTOR OR? 773 +++ 1 text unit out of 1096, = 0.09% +++ Searching document int.Mrs LMM '01... MM: Were they Presbyterians --- they said: oh wear your Bible class badge, you'll get in alright. There were quite a few when I went --- to be manpowered they wanted me to go to sewing, but I had to leave sewing because I wasn't keeping well and the DOCTOR said to get away from sewing, but anyway I had to do something else. So we had to go to the manpower doctor and we got to the manpower doctor - our own doctor was away at the time in the Army and, here, he looked at the letter he'd given to tell me to get away from sewing because they were trying to get me to go to a shirt factory and mum wasn't to let me. She'd keep me home before she let me go to a shirt factory. So anyway I was allowed to go somewhere else and I went with some of the others from the church, were working . . . 511 +++ 1 text unit out of 961, = 0.10% +++ Searching document int.Mrs LMM '98... LMM: Yes, well, he have, we came up back to Caversham when he was just due to start school at five, and ... he had ... he was good, and it seemed to suit him fine, he had two and a half years without a sign, we thought, oh great, and then it came back with a bang when he was about eight and that - he had a bad spell for quite a while then, and then when he was at high school he had another go, but the DOCTOR seemed to think it could have been a bit of - he was put into - he was very young, and he was put into the top class, well, they were a very bright class at King's at the time, and the doctor had me - had him shifted to a - down one step cause he sort of thought the pressure might have been a bit much and he was starting to get migraines by that time, so at thirteen - which wasn't good, so he put him down, but he - yes, they had ... I'm not sure what year that was ... but the tea - the headmaster wasn't too keen, he said, you know, he said he was keeping up, he wasn't in the top group, but there was a very bright group in the top lot, the doctor sort of felt that could be the stress of school that was sort of, you know, pushing him, we, we didn't force him, he did it, you know, himself, but he - so he was put into the B, like the second academic class, but he, he didn't get his UE the first time, he, he was ill that year, he had a lot of time off, and then the next year he, he got it, so he sort of more or less got back to his age group, by then he was sort of younger than most of them, so he really didn't, you know, loose out as far age went. 551 LMM: They'd put me on to DOCTOR Begg, like he was the child specialist and that, and just sort of just kept in touch with him - through that. 559 +++ 2 text units out of 939, = 0.21% +++ Searching document int.Mr JRMM... JM: No. No. There were none there. There might have been a few Chinese. No, the --- even --- when I was young where Kings High, Queens High, all that was Chinese gardens, and we used to go over and buy vegetables off the Chinese and I know at --- when I went to Kings High, where there's football fields now beside - you could look out the window and you could see the Chinese had whites working for them. And we weren't over happy about that. But I had quite a bit to do with Chinese since and I find them quite good people. Actually, Jim Ng is my DOCTOR and he's very good. He's a good Presbyterian. Do you know Jim? 207 JM: They were respected. They were respected. In those days, your bank manager, your DOCTOR and your minister were three people who were very much respected in the community. And if you wanted advice, those were the people you went to. Not the --- your parents - my parents would go to, I suppose. Could have been to a certain extent when I first got married. But now they're not respected to the same extent that they were then. 543 JM: Well I can remember our minister and I can remember our family DOCTOR. 555 JM: Uhm . . . his name has just slipped now, but I can picture him well in my mind at St Clair, he was there for several years, and he was a good minister. Oh, I've forgotten his name now. And our family DOCTOR. I don't know about the bank manager, that wasn't my . . . 559 JM: Oh I think he was fairly strict. He was uh . . . he was a good person. A person to be respected. I'll think of his name in a moment. But uh . . . and our family DOCTOR was - although in those days you didn't go to doctors very much because they were a costly item. It used to cost 7/6d to see a doctor and that was a lot of money in those days. 563 +++ 5 text units out of 649, = 0.77% +++ Searching document int.Mrs NN... MC: I'VE GOT AN AUNT WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND I KNOW IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO GET TO THE DOCTOR AND HAVE IT CHECKED. 572 +++ 1 text unit out of 723, = 0.14% +++ Searching document int.Mrs NN... JN: I don't really - well, we used to go dancing, you see, and I met him in a dance, and it was the old Odd Fellows Hall, that was down on the corner of Wilkie Road, and, and it was a, a Forrester's Lodge that we were in, you know, we used to be in lodges at that time, and you got your DOCTOR a bit cheaper I think it was, and that sort of thing, and, so we were - I was with my friends down there, and that's how I met him, at the, at the Forrester's Lodge. 1054 +++ 1 text unit out of 2248, = 0.04% +++ Searching document int.Norman, Annie... AN: Yes. Dr Carswell was the DOCTOR. 321 AN: So I said, oh, Mrs Cardno lives over the road, I says, she'll come over and help you. So anyway, she was good to me, Mrs Cardno, she used to come over to see me. So anyway, she came over, she brought all her tools with her, you know, and helped me out, so I was, wasn't dressed really for anything. So she got me down in the bed, and she says to me, she says, there's another one. I says, two, I said, what will I do with two boys? So anyway he came and it was the other one you see, Arthur. So she fixed me all up and everything. So they - the DOCTOR come along and he says to me, he says, what's this good thing I hear that you have done today? I says, well I says, you told me to wash the blankets so I says go up a hill and have a run. I says, well, I says, I've done neither. Cause I didn't have time. So he says, well he says, I've been to a poor woman he says, she's had twins in Baker Street, he says, but she didn't have them like you. I said, oh, I'm very sorry for her. So anyway we put the - the babies were in a cot, Joyce came along, she says, what a lot of babies mummy. 353 TB: DID YOU GET MUCH ADVICE FROM THE DOCTOR ON WHAT TO EAT AND - 391 AN: And we'd sit around the fire, so when, when Joyce was born, the DOCTOR says - I had doctor Cederberg, and - 429 AN: And everything else. And you knew very well then it was time, but of course I went to the DOCTOR and he gave me a date, but he gave it to me for February. 755 TB: WHAT CAN YOU REMEMBER ABOUT DOCTOR CEDERBERG, CAN YOU REMEMBER MUCH ABOUT HER? 771 AN: Yes, and if there was anything I wanted and all that, she was the lodge DOCTOR you see. 821 TB: Oh, she was the lodge DOCTOR. 823 TB: WAS, WAS HE THE ONE LODGE DOCTOR AS WELL? 835 AN: Oh yes, he was - no he wasn't a lodge DOCTOR. 837 TB: RATHER THAN GO TO THE DOCTOR? 879 AN: So I got an order from the DOCTOR for - to get this, so the - he says, you'll get a, a roll of the ... white dressing, you know, that lint. 1076 TB: YES. AND HOW DID YOU PAY THE DOCTOR? 1100 AN: The DOCTOR used to - he was good - 1106 TB: Oh, the DOCTOR's got it. 1162 AN: Yes. He said, but if you need the DOCTOR, he says, you put out a white cloth on the gate, try and knock it on to a bit of stick. So my sister was there and she put it out and a doctor come in and he says to my sister, he says, how did you know about the white cloth on the gate? She said, well Dr Carswell told us yesterday, he said, well that's just come out yesterday, the doctors were told to tell the patients. And so anyway my husband died at night, and well, it was just as well because that poisoning was going into the top jaw. 1164 AN: I says to them, I says, I'm not going to die, I've got three children to look after. And one time when I was in hospital the DOCTOR says, asks me about myself and I says, I says you - he says, what keeps you alive, and I says, you know, I says, I've got three children at home, I says, my mother is elderly, I says, she's too old like to bring up three children, I said, and I've got to fight for them. So it was really that, and I had faith in my doctor. And of course I had faith in God to bring us through. 1786 AN: So, he did, he was good to us. But I had Dr Miller and he was, he was a lovely DOCTOR. 1790 TB: WAS HE A LOCAL DOCTOR, DR MILLER? 1792 AN: No, he was like a hospital DOCTOR. 1794 TB: Oh, a hospital DOCTOR. 1796 JW: And a young DOCTOR like him to die of it. 1816 +++ 22 text units out of 3011, = 0.73% +++ Searching document int.Paine, I.B.... IP Well my mother did. That's how you paid for your medical bills. You belonged to the Friendly Society and they paid the DOCTOR for you. This was in the days before social welfare. There were lots of home remedies too. 103 INT WERE THERE MANY MEDICINES THAT YOU COULD JUST GO OUT AND BUY RATHER THAN GOING TO A DOCTOR? 109 IP We used to go to the pictures or we'd go out to St Clair and I'd play in the band. Or to the Gardens or else we'd take the bus round the peninsula, Woodhall Gardens, the Botanical Gardens. If you went away on a holiday you didn't go very far. You'd go out to Brighton or Taieri Mouth. You'd catch the seaside train to there or to Waitati or DOCTOR's Point. 167 +++ 3 text units out of 404, = 0.74% +++ Searching document int.Randall, Peter... +++ Searching document int.Mr TR... TR: Oh there were three of them. And then again, years later when I was at High School I used to go to a property out at Outram. And that visit came about because this particular boy went to Kings High School caught a train from Outram about seven in the morning which connected with another train in Mosgiel which came to Caversham Station which got him off - or Kensington I think - got him to High School. So he came to our place for lunch and then I used to re-visit back there. And then one day I was out walking and there was a showgrounds at Outram and two or three Docherty boys, they were Catholic boys, they surrounded me and they started jeering and making threats, and I think they were having me on. I let out a loud shriek and called out for Nuka, his name was. He came dashing round and saw what was going on and they scattered. But the irony of all that is that long numbers of years later in Gore - we lived in Gore and we had need to have a DOCTOR, but who should come out as this practitioner and locum but one of these Docherty boys. Ha ha! I can't say, there was no act of objectionable behaviour from our side and I don't think there was from the other side either, but it was just one of those stupid things that you grew up with. 106 +++ 1 text unit out of 569, = 0.18% +++ Searching document int.Riddell, Beatrice... BR: Only the DOCTOR. 422 BR: Ah yeah mother would help. She would help or give her advice or give her opinion of what she would do but she never ever said do it but she gave her advice/opinion. The DOCTOR was very good. 426 MC: DID YOU FIND THAT YOUR MOTHER AND THE DOCTOR AND PLUNKET ALWAYS AGREED WITH EACH OTHER? 428 +++ 3 text units out of 600, = 0.50% +++ Searching document int.Riddell, Wax Vesta... +++ Searching document int.Roberts, Rose... +++ Searching document int.Roebuck, Lew... LR I came back from overseas and where did I go? I have a bit of a hazy time. My sister was married. A friend of mine met me at the station when I arrived back and said 'come on out and meet Mrs Ward'. I said, 'I don't know a Mrs Ward'. I had been previous to that with a well known DOCTOR in Dunedin, Dr Moody. I'll tell you about that after this Mrs Ward because that's an episode we can't miss out. So I went down with this Jock Brunton, he had vester factories at the time. He took me down to this Mrs Ward. There was my sister. So I stayed there for a week. Then this Dr Moodie he got to hear that I was down there. Of course I was trying to dodge him because it was a mixture. You were his servant. He treated marvellously. He was a great doctor, never give you too much in the cash line but anything else I wanted. But you see you were never really free. He'd be down on you whether you were going to visit somebody. But he always had the winning hand. He had that nature. He was funny to be with. A bit like here. I have to get used to all these interruptions. 144 TB EVER REMEMBER SEEING THE DOCTOR OR DID YOU MAINLY GO TO CHEMISTS? 211 LR Just to the chemist. Mr Wilkinson. Everybody went to him. But he was as good as a DOCTOR himself anyway. Some kid would be plonked on his counter and he'd be looking at a rash, just like a doctor. But they were great people the Wilkinsons, the whole family were marvellous people. So patient. 213 +++ 3 text units out of 438, = 0.68% +++ Searching document int.Rutherford, Mr & Mrs... I: AND DO YOU REMEMBER WHO DELIVERED THEM? DID THE DOCTOR DELIVER THEM OR DID THEY HAVE A MIDWIFE? 450 +++ 1 text unit out of 625, = 0.16% +++ Searching document int.Shiel, Gerald... +++ Searching document int.Shiel, Miss... Miss S:I had my tonsils out I remember that but I think we just went in or it was adenoids or something they took out, I can remember that ... might've been in the DOCTOR's rooms or something like that. Can't remember being in hospital. All I remember is waking up in bed after that. That's all I can remember about that .. a very sore throat. 385 +++ 1 text unit out of 1349, = 0.07% +++ Searching document int.Sidey, Stuart... SS: Yes she was, she was a great friend of Emily Seiderberg, who was the first woman DOCTOR, I think, and she used to come to the house, actually treated me ... yes. You know, extraordinary. If I got a very bad chest cold they came out and, and, and put a anti-congestion on your chest, it was hot - made this damned stuff up and covered on a, a sheet or something and then sloshed it onto your chest, oh God. 295 +++ 1 text unit out of 807, = 0.12% +++ Searching document int.Smith, Jean... Mrs Smith: Ahh, I was very happy with it, I was very happy. I had music. My parents were most ambitious for all of the family. My mother was a very, very good manager, and they were thrifty. My father, my parents didn't drink. They were devoted Christians, had a Christian background and dad would have loved to have been a DOCTOR and he had the brains to have been so but both my parents, who were highly intelligent people hadn't gone past the sixth standard, and my mother would have liked to have been a nurse but my brother became an orthopaedic surgeon, highly regarded and my other brother became a civil engineer and my sister, who was born in Gore, was a teacher (MC: right) and we both had musical education. 127 +++ 1 text unit out of 528, = 0.19% +++ Searching document int.Mrs ZO... And in the New Year's Eve I was in agony, I couldn't, I could hardly see, I didn't know where I was, I was behind the counter you know and was going like this and anyway they sent me home and when I got home, this is to St Clair, my mother was in bed ill with ah, sciatica, so she said to me, uh 'Just go to bed and get a hot water bottle', I had peritonitis and the next day the lady next door, Mrs Macassie, she came in to see mother and mum said to her, 'Go and have a look at Zeita, she's not well', and she came back and she said, 'She's ill'. I was unconscious by then and ah so they got the DOCTOR and out and he just picked me up and took me in his car to Bromar Hospital and of course in those days there was no antibiotics and it was just the fact that I was a very healthy person that I got through it. I was unconscious for about five or six days, they never expected me to get through, but I did and so, I was six months recuperating and then I went back to work and I was seven years at A & T Ingles. 57 ZS: I don't know because you see, soon as, they came, he came down with it, he was the last one, the DOCTOR ordered me out of the house because it looked like I wasn't going to catch it you see. (MC: right) So he said take her away. I remember an aunt was there at the time and they took me down to mother's aunt at Cargills Corner and I was there for about six weeks or more. 81 ZS: She looked after me when, after when all the others had scarlet fever and I didn't get it and the DOCTOR said well get her out of the house, and that's another uncle, her brother, and his wife happened to be there at the time and they took me down to aunty's straight away. And I was there for five or six weeks. 547 ZS: I didn't get one for years. I had a copper out there and tubs. When I got my first wringer, I was thrilled to bits and I had this big operation, and Herman had to do the wringing. I was cut right from the top of the fanny up to here and round, you see, cause I had these two huge holes that the tubes had been in when I had the peritonitis. (MC: right) and I had to have the DOCTOR's permission, a doctor's certificate to get it 'cause it was war time (MC: to get the wringer) no, to get the washing machine, when I did get one, you see. (MC: right). Well Herman had to help me with the wringer, and when he started to do it, he could see it was damn hard work, so he said ah, 'You better try and get one', and a friend said to me that, 'You'd better get a doctor's certificate and get that', so that is how I got it (MC: right). That was the first one I had. 909 +++ 4 text units out of 1071, = 0.37% +++ Searching document int.Sparkes, Shirley... SS: Uhm, a little bit, yes. She had originally wanted to become a DOCTOR, but her parents thought, no, that was too hard a course, and, so next best thing she thought she'd do dentistry, and I think she found it a little bit hard sometimes with so many men and the sort of preference towards them, but she was a person who could stick up for herself and - 135 +++ 1 text unit out of 471, = 0.21% +++ Searching document int.White, J... MC: I'M SURE DOCTORS HAVE GOT AN EXPLANATION FOR THAT. 645 JW: Then she, all the different DOCTORs - she outlived all the different doctors she'd had. When you think of it it was just incredible really when she used to be so ill, to think she lived so long. Whatever it was that was the cause of colitis I don't know but it just seemed to have left her. 731 +++ 2 text units out of 1026, = 0.19% +++ Searching document int.Wilkie, John ... She had a very sad life. She was married, she married a DOCTOR. He was the Superintendent of Wairoa Hospital in the North Island. I don't know what but something, I always think it was a clot, went to his heart. In those days they had nothing to dissolve the clot. They were bringing him from Wairoa to Auckland but he died on the way. My sister had one girl and was pregnant with the second child. She brought those two girls up and took them all round. They had not much money because they'd just started out in life. But she took those girls all over the place, sent them to Battle Abbey School, 1066 and all that down there. And she taught in London. Then she took them all over Europe. They were young then. She brought them back and they went to Columba College. One's got a Masters of Science and the other one has got a Bachelor of Science. 108 +++ 1 text unit out of 399, = 0.25% +++ Searching document int.Wilkinson, Isabel... IW: Eh, I don't think so, unless you went to your DOCTOR. 521 +++ 1 text unit out of 591, = 0.17% +++ Searching document int.Wilson, Florence... FW: No. My mother didn't have a hot water bottle till she was seventy and the DOCTOR said she must have one. 430 +++ 1 text unit out of 678, = 0.15% +++ Searching document int.Wilson, Helen... HW: And we had a lovely little person there, but, a missionary adopted, a Miss Reed, adopted, and she was, eh ... Po, eh, List, what's the name now, Chang, Chang, oh, she was ... S. uhm, Southpecker, uhm ... P, eh, [indistinct], anyway, she was the first, the first Chinese to graduate as a DOCTOR in New Zealand. She went to Otago Girls High School. 573 HW: He was a member of the, uhm ... oh, what do you call it, the ... yes, he was, a lodge, and he, he was a trustee for the Friendly Society Lodge, and he always said that the government when they brought in social welfare, they didn't really give the credit to what was being done by lodges, because, you see, they were helping people with their ... fees, and we would go to the DOCTOR, and the lodge would pay the fees. 673 HW: And she was very ill and the DOCTOR was out at Waitati, Dr Williams, and when we rang him to say Joan was very - had a temperature and she was very ill he said, oh I can't come because I'm out at my cottage, you see, and so we got Dr Murray from the corner, he came, but then Dr Williams had a conscience so then he came back, he came up the steps and he said to, uhm, Dr Murray, well, who is going to take over now, you or me, and dad said, oh, well, Dr Murray was the one to come. But that was very costly for us because we had to have an awful lot of help with Joan, and had to get a surgeon for her and go to Stafford Hospital - 685 HW: And, eh ... and Joan when she was ill, she was going to - the DOCTOR said to have a little brandy, she said, I can't because I've signed the pledge. That was the days when they had pledges in church. 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