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<ftettican*(>and area alone have 7,000. This was most surprising as it does not look to
be such a large place. Inverness has a population of around 25,00*. The hospital
facilities areas follows - 2 hospitals in Inverness, each with about 25 to 30 beds.
1 in Chetticairtpand 1 in Port Hawkesbury. There are two doctors in Inverness, three in
Chetticantpand two in Port Hawkesbury.
Miss McDougall did not seem to be very familiar with the staffing and work in
the hospitals. I do not think she has much contact with them or has endeavored to
develop the public health nursing contacts. Most of the maternity cases come to hospital. She has had two confinements in the last four years. She admitted that there were
still some who were confined at home but apparently the nurse did not call. She stated
the doctors are not interested in pre-natal work. There is a check-off system here
also. I do not think that she has gone to very great trouble to have the doctors refer
the pre-natal cases to her. She has no clinics for babies and no time in which the
mothers can come to her office, and as I stated before, it is not a very inviting place
to come to. She does not get any lists from the hospitals or is not notified of births.
She says that very few mothers are breast feeding their babies. She tries to do all
the education she can in the home visit.
the fall.
There are two tuberculosis clinics held in this area, in the spring and in
Has only about ten cases waiting for hospital.
In relation to venereal disease she says there are plenty of cases which she
has not on her file.
There is no welfare representative in Inverness, The nearest is Sydney.
She has 77 schools and a population of around 3,000. French is the language used in
most of the schools around Chetticant. She said it would be a definite advantage if
she were bilingual. There are only three dentists in Inverness county, one in Inverness
one in Chetticant and one in Port Hawkedsbury. She has an immunization clinic once a
year in Inverness, about fifty attend. Miss MacDougall does the immunizing herself in
this situation. Permission has been given for her to do this. The M.O.H. for the
rural area of Inverness is a Dr. McNeill, stationed at Ma&m* He is over 80 and his
technique in Immunization is very poor. Miss MacDougall was going on her holidays
next day and after that expects to be transferred to Halifax County. She has been in
Inverness for four years and one would definitely feel that was long enough for any
nurse to be in that situation. Miss MacDonald was very concerned about Miss MacDougall«
She thought that either there was some physical condition or that there was something
bothering her in her home situation. I felt that she was rather slow in her responses
and did not have as good a knowledge of the area as she should have. Dr. Baillie,
however, did not agree, and thought it was very difficult for her to answer when two
strengers came in and started questioning. He felt that she did know the situation
and knew what should be done. In the face of the great distances and the large population and the many problems, it must be very frustrating for the nurse. There are so
many things to do and she can only skim the surface* Perhaps they need some guidance
in the manner in which most work can be done in the easiest way. For instance, I do
think that Miss Lytle »s system of being in the office and the mother coming in is very
good. For one thing, the people are coming to the nurse and not the nurse going p>
the people. In a town the size of Inverness there are bound to be people coming in
from the rural areas for their shopping, and many of them would come to the nurse if
she would only try to build up this service. The provincial department Should also j*
take more responsibility in obtaining suitable quarters for her if she does not have
the initiative to go ahead and get them herself.
We left Cape Breton and drove on to Pictou on Saturday afternoon. We felt
last we had had a very interesting and a very profitable time in our three weeks of
survey work there. I learned a great deal about the problem. They are much greater
than I had realized and their shortage is more acute. The country is very lovely and
it should be a very nice place to work, if only there were more nurses and there was
Object Description
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| Title | [1948-1949 Diary Hamilton Ontario] |
| Creator | Creelman, Lyle, 1908-2007 |
| Date Created | 1948-1949 |
| Sort Date | 1949 |
| Extent | 171 pages |
| Subject | Nursing |
| Genre | Diaries |
| Type | Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Notes | Only pages with writing were imaged. Appears to be her full personal record of the Baillie-Creelman Survey. |
| Access Identifier | ARC-Creelman-2-4 |
| Digital Identifier | creelman_02_04_01 |
| Is Part Of | History of Nursing in Pacific Canada |
| Source | Original format: University of British Columbia. Archives. Lyle Creelman fonds. Diaries and logbooks. ARC-Creelman-2-4 |
| Date Available | 2015-03-17 |
| Publisher - Digital | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
| Rights | Digital copies are provided for research and personal use only. For permission to publish or otherwise use this material contact the UBC Archives at lib-ubcarchives@lists.ubc.ca |
| Catalogue Record | http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/creelman.pdf |
| DOI | 1.0214446 |
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| Title | creelman_02_04_01_057 |
| Sort Date | 1948 |
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