Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977 Page: 5
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Murphy:Oh, pardon me, I meant Tripler General Hospital.
Yes. They actually didn't have any quarters fixed for us.
It was just the cantonment building that was going to be
used for a ward, and they had set up . . . there were about
four private rooms and then one large room. I happened to
have a private room, and the only piece of furniture was a
bed and a built-in cupboard that had one shelf and a pole to
hang your clothes on. That's all that was in the room.
Was this more or less indicative of the lack of housing
available there in the Hawaiian Islands at that time, or
was this simply the way it was always done?
To me it was a lack of housing for the nurses. They didn't
really expect it to happen so sudden. We just arrived and
they had no place to put us, so they put us in an empty
cantonment building. Later, we did . . . in fact, just
before Pearl Harbor, we did move into a nurses' quarters,
which was the same type of a building except it had more
private rooms, and it had furniture.
What sort of work did you do here at Tripler General Hospital?
I was assigned to the eye, ear, nose, and throat ward.
Incidentally, talking about rooms, there wasn't a dresser,
so I put my suitcase on the foot of my bed. I slept for
about two months with this suitcase on the foot of the bed
(chuckle), and everybody was wondering how in the world I
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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/m1/7/?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.