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A largely unedited audio interview with Dr. Sheila Lee, who entered General Practice in Leicestershire immediately after the Second World War, and went on to work as a GP in the NHS until she retired in 1986. In the course of the interview she gives insights into some of the social and housing changes introduced in the late 1940s and 1950s. She got on well with her patients and goes on to describe the advantages of a husband-and-wife practice in the days before group surgeries. In the early years, before the introduction of the NHS in 1948, they also did their own dispensing from a back room in the surgery house. Describing the unprotected sex demanded by many husbands at that time, especially after they had been out drinking, she discusses her arrangements for fitting women with contraceptive devices in order that they could take control of their own fertility. She mentions later getting into trouble with a local Catholic priest for putting one of his parishioners on the pill. Remembering the 1940s homes for unmarried mothers and the arrangements for adopting unwanted babies she is proud to say that she could not remember having to make any such arrangements in the last 30 years, a situation that she puts down to better attitudes to family planning in the area served by her surgery. Dr Lee once went down the local pit to see the environment in which many of her patients spent most of their working lives. She describes the conditions in the mine, with a lot of manual labour in cramped conditions, and the use of pit ponies. The audio recording lasts 41 minutes and 23 seconds.
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| Creators: |
Interviewee - Lee, Dr. Sheila
Interviewer - Roberts, T.
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Health, Women
Oral History
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| Contributors: |
East Midlands Oral History Archive - Copyright Holder
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24 / 10 / 1991
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English
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United Kingdom
Leicestershire
Leicester
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Community Media Association has non exclusive rights for the use of the work in The Showcase, but the overall copyright rests with East Midlands Oral History Archive. Copyright East Midlands Oral History Archive.
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