LIM-STRANG, Janet Chiu Mei 林秋美
Medical Services in Singapore,
Accession Number 003870
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 3
Total Reels
- Denise Ng Hui Lin
Interviewer
- 01:34:22
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 3
Metadata
- 13 Mar 2014
Recording Date
- 00:37:35
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Mentioned briefly working at the Social Hygiene Hospital (SHH), Middle Road in 1946. About midwifery training at Kandang Kerbau (KK) Hospital [1947]. Treated patients like her friends. Short recollection of KK Hospital during the training. Doctors come and go at KK Hospital. The situation of delivering babies at KK Hospital in 1947. About unwanted babies at the hospital. Anecdote about a baby named after her. Unable to recall babies that died.
Left KK hospital to United Kingdom (UK) to train in child nursing for nine months [1951]. How she got the opportunity. Short description about the time spent in Liverpool and London in UK. Travelled to UK by sea. What she learnt on this trip. The similarities on nursing in UK and Singapore. How she learnt from the nurses and doctors in UK.
Return to Singapore. Became a State Registered Nurse [1952]. Her daily routine at St Andrew’s Mission Hospital. More responsibilities as State Registered Nurse. About helping the doctors during operations. About getting permission to watch doctors carry out operations.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 3
Metadata
- 13 Mar 2014
Recording Date
- 00:34:59
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Chapel service every morning at St Andrew’s Hospital. Where she lived when she was working at St Andrew’s Hospital. The doctors were all English doctors. How she became hospital matron [1954]. Her duties as St Andrew’s Mission Hospital matron. About nurses and doctors coming and going at St Andrew’s Hospital. Her working hours were long. About overworking and feeling tired. Her opinion on getting paid for nursing. About night duty. About the duties of a nurse. Her feelings towards nursing.
About being honest with the nurses as matron of St Andrew’s Hospital. The nurses learnt from each other. The nurses asked her for advice and what to do. Mentioned the location of St Andrew’s Hospital near a gas tank before the Japanese Occupation. About the children patients at the hospital. Short anecdote about a child patient who took a liking to her. How she made patients feel better. About the orphans at St Andrew’s Mission Hospital. Nurses moved from ward to ward at St Andrew’s Mission Hospital. Mostly children patients at St Andrew’s Mission Hospital.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 3
Metadata
- 13 Mar 2014
Recording Date
- 00:21:48
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
About the children at St Andrew’s Mission Hospital. The reason for her visit to Singapore this year [2014]. About celebrations at St Andrew’s Mission Hospital. Christmas at St Andrew’s Mission Hospital.
About not wanting to know and associate with the patients at the Social Hygiene Hospital (SHH) at Middle Road [1947]. Briefly stated her duties at SHH. Against the law to identify the patients and their disease at SHH. No uniform for nurses at the SHH. How she got the job at the SHH.
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