Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977 Page: 29
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Murphy:Yes. Yes, she was very efficient. She had come from Queens
Hospital where she was a head nurse before she came in the
Army.
Now was Queens Hospital a civilian hospital there in Honolulu?
Queens is a large civilian hospital, yes. But she had every-
body tagged, and it really made it nice for me.
What did you do that evening?
Oh, well (chuckle), that's what I was going to add. We had to give
medicines to the patients. They tried to get people that were
involved with ear, nose, and throat injuries. . . any damage
to the head area. . . they tried to get them into our ward.
So there were a few changes made, because we did get a few
that were others. I remember we had a civilian that was
head of the fire department at Pearl Harbor, and he had burns.
But the majority of them were confined to the head and maybe
a few shoulders. Well, that evening we had to feed the
patients. . . some we had to feed. We had to pass any medi-
cations; we had to change dressings. It got dark and we
had flashlights. We were doing it in flashlights, because
we couldn't have any lights on. Later I was told that some
of the nurses had been sent off in the afternoon to get a
few hours sleep so they could be the night nurses, because
we had to have a lot more night nurses. I wasn't sent off;
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Murphy, Elizabeth. Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977, book, May 30, 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc98989/m1/31/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.