Title
Interview clip with C Wagstaff
Subject
Health
Description
Audio clip of C Wagstaff talking about health
Creator
EMOHA
Source
Full interview available here - -
Publisher
EMOHA
Date
1930s
Rights
You may use this item in accordance with the licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
Format
,mp3
Language
English
Type
Oral history
Original Format
Tape
Duration
1 min 34 secs
Bit Rate/Frequency
87 kbps
Transcription
And the hospital is very wealthy. And we gave a lot of money up to the health service and it was dreadful really.
Were some patients treated free because?
Oh, they were all treated free. They were all treated free. But then of course, the reason being because they all paid into what they call a Saturday hospital fund.
What about the ones who couldn't pay into the Saturday hospital fund?
Uh, no. I I don't think that they were asked to do it because I think there was a a fund. You know, I think there's enough money. There for them to Mars have it free. So it really was a free health service more or less as it were, all it was the health service in those days. But when the health service took off, it became much more business-like and, of course, with giving all the money in to the government or to the whatever it was, we felt that we'd rather missed out. And therefore I think we did miss out. Because we could have done. Lot more if we've been more far, seeing like building things in the areas and things like that, I mean. We were a very, very small hospital, do you think about 500 odd beds? I mean, look at it now.
Why do you think it's expanded so much?
It surely can't just be the well, it was used to be the thing it used to be. The thing to have her a big hospital. But then they've decided now that it's too big. And I really don't. But was there a lot of nursing carried out at people's homes still? No, no, there wasn't. Not until recently. So you never actually. We didn't feel anything. We just worked in the hospital.
Were some patients treated free because?
Oh, they were all treated free. They were all treated free. But then of course, the reason being because they all paid into what they call a Saturday hospital fund.
What about the ones who couldn't pay into the Saturday hospital fund?
Uh, no. I I don't think that they were asked to do it because I think there was a a fund. You know, I think there's enough money. There for them to Mars have it free. So it really was a free health service more or less as it were, all it was the health service in those days. But when the health service took off, it became much more business-like and, of course, with giving all the money in to the government or to the whatever it was, we felt that we'd rather missed out. And therefore I think we did miss out. Because we could have done. Lot more if we've been more far, seeing like building things in the areas and things like that, I mean. We were a very, very small hospital, do you think about 500 odd beds? I mean, look at it now.
Why do you think it's expanded so much?
It surely can't just be the well, it was used to be the thing it used to be. The thing to have her a big hospital. But then they've decided now that it's too big. And I really don't. But was there a lot of nursing carried out at people's homes still? No, no, there wasn't. Not until recently. So you never actually. We didn't feel anything. We just worked in the hospital.
Interviewer
T Roberts
Interviewee
C Wagstaff
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