A remembrance of Eve Chicoine by granddaughter Theresa Brum
My Grandmother Eva Chicoine, studied a two year course in practical nursing at the Crary Clinic Hospital on Tucker Rd. where the Holy Cross Fathers is now.
She told me that the operating room was on the top floor where the skylights are, the reason for this is that operations had to be done during the day because they did not have electricity. I am so sorry I threw out her nursing notes many years ago. She described how the nurse had to start the fire in a coal stove, sweep the floors and how they made poultices for colds. The poultices where herbs in cheesecloth that were applied to the chest to help with breathing and to loosen up secretions in the lungs. This was many years away from the discovery of antibiotics and believe it or not, people got better with rest and good nursing care. My grandmother lived on 25 Viall St. in New Bedford in a 3 family home that her brother bought for her parents and 13 brothers and sister, Her brother was Bobby Dyson, a boxer. My grandmother told me about the train from New Bedford to Fall RIver on Old Fall RIver Rd. I am not sure how she got to the hospital to study. She did stay in the Nurses dormitory right next door to the left of the hospital in the St.Joseph Hall that the Holy Cross fathers took over.
It was at this hospital that she met my grandfather, Marshall Charles Sadeck who was a patient of hers. I had pictures of them at Round Hill in front of some plane. My grandmother told me that Colonel Green was very generous in letting people ride out to his place and listen to the radio. My grandparents bought land on Old Plainville Rd and Dr. Cecil Smith delivered the four children my grandparents had at home. People were very resourceful at that time and the depression hit the area. My grandmother graduated in 1930 and my grandparents lived in the country and raised chickens and had gardens for food.
I wish there was more history on this Nursing program and the Crary Clinic.
Theresa Sadeck Brum, May 2019
She told me that the operating room was on the top floor where the skylights are, the reason for this is that operations had to be done during the day because they did not have electricity. I am so sorry I threw out her nursing notes many years ago. She described how the nurse had to start the fire in a coal stove, sweep the floors and how they made poultices for colds. The poultices where herbs in cheesecloth that were applied to the chest to help with breathing and to loosen up secretions in the lungs. This was many years away from the discovery of antibiotics and believe it or not, people got better with rest and good nursing care. My grandmother lived on 25 Viall St. in New Bedford in a 3 family home that her brother bought for her parents and 13 brothers and sister, Her brother was Bobby Dyson, a boxer. My grandmother told me about the train from New Bedford to Fall RIver on Old Fall RIver Rd. I am not sure how she got to the hospital to study. She did stay in the Nurses dormitory right next door to the left of the hospital in the St.Joseph Hall that the Holy Cross fathers took over.
It was at this hospital that she met my grandfather, Marshall Charles Sadeck who was a patient of hers. I had pictures of them at Round Hill in front of some plane. My grandmother told me that Colonel Green was very generous in letting people ride out to his place and listen to the radio. My grandparents bought land on Old Plainville Rd and Dr. Cecil Smith delivered the four children my grandparents had at home. People were very resourceful at that time and the depression hit the area. My grandmother graduated in 1930 and my grandparents lived in the country and raised chickens and had gardens for food.
I wish there was more history on this Nursing program and the Crary Clinic.
Theresa Sadeck Brum, May 2019
