MONTEIRO, Edmund Hugh (Dr)
Medical Services in Singapore,
Accession Number 001956
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 16
Total Reels
- Patricia Lee
Interviewer
- 08:02:57
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 16
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- 16 Oct 1997
Recording Date
- 00:30:18
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Born in 1933, Singapore. Educational and family background. Father's relationship with Lee Kuan Yew. Circumstances that led to the study of medicine. Struggle with Latin in school. How he felt about having a father who was a prominent doctor. Influence of his mother on his life. Principles guiding his doctor-patient relationships. The tendency to bring "work" home.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 16
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- 16 Oct 1997
Recording Date
- 00:30:58
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Why Tuberculosis (TB) patients lacked discipline in taking their medicine. Side effects of the medicine. Causes of TB. How hospital staff protected themselves against infection. Posting to Paediatric Department, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) in 1961. How political situation in the 1960s affected the health of children. Types of patients housed at the Middleton Hospital. Types of common diseases. Forms of transmission.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 16
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- 24 Oct 1997
Recording Date
- 00:31:57
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Profile of patients with typhoid. Causes. Eradication measures. Traditional method of diagnosing and treating typhoid. Symptoms of diarrhoea and dysentery. Causes. Treatment in the 1960s. How cancer of the rectum was diagnosed as dysentery in the 1960s. Description of small pox disease. Vaccination of hospital staff. Outbreak of smallpox in 1959. Symptoms of smallpox.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 16
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- 24 Oct 1997
Recording Date
- 00:29:50
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Symptoms of smallpox and chicken pox. Causes of smallpox. Failure of vaccine in the 1960s in providing immunity. Control of disease through "ring vaccination". Burial of patients with smallpox. Treatment of smallpox. Outbreak of cholera in 1963 and 1972. Symptoms and causes of cholera. Fluid loss and treatment. Risk of treatment.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 16
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- 24 Oct 1997
Recording Date
- 00:29:39
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Causes of and treatment for measles. Diphtheria. Symptoms and causes. Treatment. Development of new diseases in the 1980s and 1990s. Hospital administration for HIV-positive patients. Problems of housing AIDs patients. Detection of first patient with HIV infection in 1986. Acquired through blood transfusion in Florida in 1982.
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Reel/Disc 9 of 16
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- 6 Nov 1997
Recording Date
- 00:30:09
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Outpatient treatment. Profile of patients. Shared his experiences of posting to the AIDs wards between 1986 to1988. Early group of AIDs victims were affluent male homosexuals. Change in profile of patients. Less affluent. More heterosexuals and drug-users. Patients with HIV infection are better educated. Nature and costs of the CD4 and viral load tests.
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Reel/Disc 10 of 16
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- 11 Nov 1997
Recording Date
- 00:30:54
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Nature of CD4 and viral load tests. Estimated population of patients with HIV in Singapore since 1985. Nature and costs of treatment given to patients with HIV virus and patients with Aids. Vaccine as a possible means of controlling the spread of HIV virus. Sexual lifestyle of patients with HIV virus. Effects on spouses.
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