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Newsletter April 2012 Newsletter April 2012 President’s Report The first quarter of 2012 has gone very quickly, and been launched for nurses to tell of their experiences. already there has been one Market Day, and one In particular we are interested in stories about the major tour of the Hospital Museum. The Museum experience of living in Nurses’ Quarters, and the ex- tends to increase in popularity each Market Day. periences of student nurses who were the pioneers The first major tour to the Museum occurred in March of the University based system. We are calling for when Members of the University of the Third Age nurses to take time to write to us of their experi- arranged for their routine monthly outing to be a guid- ences. These stories after editing will be collated into ed tour through the Museum. U3A Members met at a book to be launched at next year’s IND Celebra- Arnolds, and while enjoying morning tea, Yvonne gave tions. Some examples of such stories will be available a much appreciated overview of the Museum’s origins. for reading at the IND Function. Morning tea was followed by guided tours through the Information concerning the program for International Museum and its archive area. Nurses’ Day is on a small flyer included with this As part of the Committee’s endeavours to make each newsletter. Please send anecdotal stories to ACHHA, repeat visit by the public to the Museum of continued PO Box 4035, Rockhampton Qld 4700 or email to interest and in keeping with the strategic plan, pro- [email protected]. posed focused displays have commenced under the ACHHA has purchased two manikins in keeping with coordination of Ashley and Errol. The first display, our intention of replacing those not quite complete pictorial and written, portrayed the history of the that have to date proved adequate, but in the Museum itself, and created much interest with discerning eyes of the school children are now some- visitors, and members. what lacking. The next display will feature Nurses in War Service, There remains a lot of work to be done in the archive and will be in place in honour of Anzac Day. The area, such as cataloguing, sorting etc, and we would displays will stay in place for four to six weeks. Be sure welcome any member able to join this activity or the not to miss any. roster for the school tours which will start shortly. No The program for International Nurses’ Day is well in one will be left on their own, but we do not always hand and promises to be both interesting and enter- get a lot of notice about tours, and Management taining. IND 2012 will be held at CQUniversity on Committee members are not always available. Saturday 12th May, and will consist of a Professional The stone wall fence is still being worked on, and Development Workshop from 12.30pm to 5.30pm when complete, hopefully by September, we plan to followed by refreshments prior to the evening session hold a celebration function. The two Sandrock gates commencing at 6pm. The theme for the evening that once graced the fence around the Base Hospital session is “My Generation meets Q and A”. (The “My will be a feature of the wall. In the wall or near the Generation” panel will have Nurses from the following wall will be all the many interesting plaques that form generations: “The Builders”, “The Baby Boomers“, part of the ACHHA collection. We are grateful to “Gen X” and “Gen Y”). Questions will be invited from Dieter Irving who is working hard on ensuring the the audience, and participants will be asked to identify wall is completed before he leaves Rockhampton artefacts from both the past and the present. later in the year. Retired Nurses interested in attending the workshop I wish our Archivist Yvonne a speedy return to full session will need to register and pay $20. The evening health and mobilisation, following surgery, and my session is free, but donations will be welcome. continued appreciation goes to members of the As part of an ongoing desire of both the IND Com- Management Committee who so willingly ensure all is mittee and the ACHHA Management Committee to well at the Museum. capture anecdotal stories of how it was for the Norma West Student Nurse during training days, an appeal has ‘Dedicated to preserving the health service history of Central Queensland’ ACHHA Newsletter April 2012 Page 2 Changing Displays Another beautiful photograph As mentioned by our President in her report, we are This is an image of yet another of the large photo- mindful of keeping the museum display interesting graphs in our Collection. One thing special about for returning visitors. One of our Management Com- this one is that all of the names are available. The mittee Members, Ashley Reid, has drawn up a draft photograph taken around 1930 shows Matron Maud program for the year. The first small display high- Green with midwifery staff near the time when the lighted tuberculosis and drew attention to items in Women’s Hospital in West St closed and the Lady our Collection particularly the Westwood Sanatori- Goodwin opened. The nurses are identified as (Back um collection. As Norma mentioned, the second L to R): Eastern, Cameron, Towers, Green; (Front L was a set of photographs with text setting out the to R): Yorke, Collins, Matron Sarah Maud Green, story of the development of our museum at the Fullerton, Weber and Tot Healy (seated on ground). Village including the transfer of the building from Mt Remember that you can view more of our photo- Morgan and the work which has been done to refur- graphs in larger sizes on our website bish it and set up the displays. www.achha.org.au. The next display, being set up in time for Anzac Day and the May Markets on May 13th features “Nurses in War Service”. The intention of these displays is to highlight items in our collection, while placing them in the broader context of what it was like to be a health professional in country Australia or in the world at large in the first half of the 20th Century. With this in mind we will feature aspects of the life and service of two World War 1 nurses, Lillian Craib who trained in Charters Towers, and Martha Homewood who trained in Mt Morgan, and two World War 2 nurses, Alma Crudgington and Edna Weber, both of whom trained at the Rockhampton Hospital. Some aspects of Martha Homewoods’s career will be featured in this Newsletter. We will Association Membership also tell the full story of Edna Weber’s career, of The Association welcomes your support for our ac- which service in the RAAF was just a part. Edna was tivities. The Association operates on a normal finan- an important donor to our collection. Apart from cial year (July—June) and any new subscriptions her story, delivered in the form of oral history inter- paid now will be credited against the membership views with Yvonne Kelley, we have a collection of fee for the 2012/2013 Financial Year. valuable photographs and other items such as her If you wish to join the Association, please contact uniform hat, badges of rank and service medals. the secretary, Errol Payne, by phone on 4922 3314, Some of our changing displays will be timed to link by email at: to broader community issues such as infection pre- [email protected] or post payments to vention, national reconciliation and poliomyelitis. ACHHA Inc, Box 4035, Rockhampton Qld 4700. Of Christmas celebrations were a highlight for the course any member of our management committee nurses and patients when stays in hospital were outlined on the final page will be pleased to assist often much longer than they are today. We have you to join. many photographs of such celebrations in the collec- Membership Fees tion. It was normal for these to be given promi- Annual nence in the newspapers of the day – hence we Individual $20.00 often have a story to go with them. We are planning Couple $30.00 to feature Christmas in Hospitals at the time of the Life Christmas Markets on Sunday 25th November. Individual $200.00 Couple $300.00 We hope you will be able to join us to view some of Please make cheques payable to: Australian Country these special features, prepared to complement our Hospital Heritage Association Inc. permanent displays representing a typical country hospital. ‘‘Dedicated to preserving the health service history of Central Queensland’ ACHHA Newsletter April 2012 Page 3 Edna May Weber – A Career in Nursing 1925 - 1947 The uniform at the time was royal blue with a white One of the essential parts of the ACHHA Collection apron and a cap and collar. Uniforms, which were is the set of oral histories of doctors, nurses, phar- heavily starched, were taken care of by the hospital macists and other health professionals collected laundry. Skirts were worn below the knee. The through tape recorded interviews over nearly 20 Matron gave lectures on hospital responsibilities years. These tell a fascinating story about what it and ethics, the medical superintendent taught was like to be a health professional in country anatomy and physiology and other Sisters also Queensland in the first 60 or so years of the 20th contributed to the lecture program. Disciplines Century. taught and examined over the four year program included general nursing, anatomy, physiology, We have previously published the text of an oral medical nursing and invalid cookery (generally history interview which Dr Tom Dewar collected by taught in the technical colleges).
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