Enid Davis oral history interview by Betty Marshall

MLOH 158

fonds

17 June 1993

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

412002

Digitised

2 audiocassettes (1 hr., 21 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Enid Davis was born in India in 1914. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 1936 and then did a social studies course from which she graduated in 1937. In 1939 she went to the New York School of Social Work for 6 months and arrived back in Australia just before the outbreak of World War II in 1939. She enrolled at the Red Cross as a medical social worker. Enid Davis lectured at the newly established social work course at the University of Sydney from 1941 to 1947. After this she went to Concord Hospital, Sydney, for a year and was engaged in the rehabilitation of returned soldiers. She then went to Tamworth and thence to Goulburn as head social worker at a new psychiatric hospital. A year later whe went back to Red Cross House, Sydney to begin a new venture in patient/family work. This was to be her work for the next 20 years. She then worked at the Chest Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital for 10 years and retired in 1979. This oral history interview was conducted by Betty Marshall, volunteer at the State Library of New South Wales.

Enid Davis talks about her education in social work, as well as her experiences as a lecturer in the course at the University of Sydney. She also describes her professional life at Concord Hospital, Red Cross House, Sydney, Tamworth and Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney.

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder.

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

A log of these tapes is available
Copy available at CYMLOH 158/1-2
MLOH 158/2 Side A: Recorded in Cammeray on 17 June 1993

MLOH 158/2 Side B: Recorded in Cammeray on 17 June 1993

MLOH 158/1 Side A: Recorded in Cammeray on 17 June 1993
MLOH 158/1 Side B: Side B is blank.

MLOH 158/2 Side B: Recording ends abruptly.
MLOH 158/2 Side A:
Tape is numbered out of order, this is Item 01 part 1.

MLOH 158/2 Side B:
Tape is numbered out of order, this is Item 01 part 1.

MLOH 158/1 Side A:
Tape is numbered out of order, this is Item 01 part 2.

Interviewer: Marshall, Betty
Interviewee: Davis, Enid

MLOH 158/2 Side A:
Cassette label reads 'Early social work in Sydney -training and practice'

MLOH 158/2 Side B:
Cassette label reads 'Early social work in Sydney -training and practice'.

MLOH 158/1 Side A:
Cassette label reads 'Early social work in Sydney -training and practice'.