VAITHILINGAM, Daisy
Women through the Years: Economic & Family Lives,
Accession Number 000621
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 17
Total Reels
- Daniel Chew (Dr) & Lai Ah Eng (Dr)
Interviewer
- 07:55:55
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 17
Metadata
- 9 Jun 1993
Recording Date
- 00:31:03
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Grandfather from Ceylon. Family background. Mother a nurse, stepfather doctor. Assumed she would become a doctor. Middle-class upbringing. Active school and family life. Went to Raffles College. Hoped to become journalist. In her second year at Raffles College, it became University of Malaya (Singapore). Her contemporaries. Teaching system at University.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 17
Metadata
- 9 Jun 1993
Recording Date
- 00:31:21
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
How she became medical social worker (msw). After war, depressing state of health of people-malnutrition, poverty, difficult physical conditions in rural and urban areas. Her interest in working with children.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 17
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- 9 Jun 1993
Recording Date
- 00:31:04
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Spent much time looking for parents of abandoned children. Made suggestions to families to improve their diet. Her training in England. While there, worked in hospitals, schools and with old people.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 17
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- 16 Jun 1993
Recording Date
- 00:31:21
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Soup kitchens in post-war Singapore. Worked in children's paediatrics unit at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), 1954. Became first local head of social workers. Her involvement with handicapped children. Foster care scheme started. Sending overage children to community centres. Training programme for voluntary organisations.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 17
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- 23 Jun 1993
Recording Date
- 00:31:05
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
How Children's Society got started. Setting up children's centres. Training of handicapped children for jobs. Her interest in chronically sick patients. Hospital's attitude to them.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 17
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- 23 Jun 1993
Recording Date
- 00:26:48
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Clan associations' and temples' roles in helping to look after chronic sick. Getting voluntary organisations to look after them. Differences between voluntary and commercially-run places that care for sick. Her battle with Ministry of Health in its stand on chronic sick.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 17
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- 16 Jul 1993
Recording Date
- 00:30:44
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Her counselling work at Radiotherapy Unit of Singapore General Hospital (SGH). How she related to patients and their families. Dealing with subject of death. Social workers give much of themselves in counselling work. Patients' attitudes to impending death.
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Reel/Disc 8 of 17
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- 16 Jul 1993
Recording Date
- 00:23:54
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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How she arranged with shipping lines to send back elderly patients to India and China. Assumed chairmanship of Committee of Council of Social Services. How homes for aged were set up by Council in Housing Development Board (HDB) estates, for example, at Bukit Merah View. Four persons in a flat. Her involvement with Children's Society.
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Reel/Disc 9 of 17
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- 26 Jul 1993
Recording Date
- 00:30:57
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Her lecturing work at Department of Social Work, University of Singapore. Little local teaching material. Teaching students to deal with groups and communities. Got students to help clients on public assistance to get jobs. Her interest in field practice.
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Reel/Disc 10 of 17
Metadata
- 26 Jul 1993
Recording Date
- 00:31:12
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Further elaboration on students working on public assistance cases and another project in Toa Payoh. Retired from teaching and went away on holiday. Approached to set up medical social work unit at National University Hospital (NUH).
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