Interview with Mary Waites, mental nurse, with comments by Bert Waites, 11 Jul 1979
MSS.229/6/C/CO/7/19
11 Jul 1979
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Subjects include: female nurse duties and routines in various parts of the hospital; types of patient; various aspects of hospital life (side A); social and sporting activities at the hospital; staffing structure; changes at the hospital between Mary Waites's first and second periods of employment there; Bert Waites's work as a union official (side B)
Duration: 46 minutes 54 seconds on side A; 31 minutes 54 seconds on side B.
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Mary Waites was orginally from Cannock and began working at Barnsley Hall Hospital in Bromsgrove in January 1924. In 1932 she left to get married to Bert Waites, a fellow nurse at the hospital. See returned to work there in 1947.