Scarlet Fever Outbreak
Heroes Remember
Scarlet Fever Outbreak
I think our general nurse’s training prepared us for almost
anything that could happen. Now I was astounded in the first few
weeks I was in Regina. There was a vey bad outbreak of scarlet
fever and it got so bad there wasn’t room in the hospital. There
were, these were, the hospital was mostly huts that you see,
imagine these old huts still left around, but it was too small
and so they opened up, put up double deck bunks in the armoury,
on the floor of the armoury, and this is were we looked after
these people with scarlet fever. Well, I come from a big
hospital hat had an isolation hospital and we had gowns and
soap and water at every door and they were separated.
Well, here were all these young guys out on this great big floor
in these double decker beds. We had no, we didn’t have any gowns
We didn’t have anything like that. I thought, how, this is awful
you know, to treat people like this, but you know it wasn’t
really. They were healthy, they were clean, they got better so
fast which is incredible. You adapt to the situation that's for
sure and that was one of my early adaptations to looking after
a lot of people in a situation that you wouldn’t see in a
civilian hospital.
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