Anglesea & District Community House Inc.
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Issue No. 104
January 2011 EDITION 104 ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS
RADIOGRAPHY & NUCLEAR MEDICINE
Community Garden 3231 3 Artist Geoff Soames
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Angair Action
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100 years of Regatta
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Early Anglesea Traders 10 New School
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Good Holiday Reads
18
BMX Bike Track
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Weathering the Winter 22 Early Aireys Inlet Names 25 Local Wineries to Visit 28 Kid’s Page
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Isla Stamp
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Our Schools
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Crossword
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About three weeks before the end of my schooling, at one of our school assemblies, the Manager of the Ballarat Base Hospital came to speak to the senior students. He told us that due to an unusual set of circumstances there was the position of trainee radiographer open at the hospital. I doubt that many of us had any idea what this would involve. Just what did a radiographer do? He did explain a little, so we knew it involved x-rays. I went home and talked to my parents about it... next day put in an application… had an interview…. about ten days later received a letter confirming that I was offered the position. I left school the Friday before Christmas in 1953 and on the Monday I started my training as a diagnostic radiographer. I was to be the fourth radiographer trained at the Ballarat Base Hospital. Probably about the best decision I have ever made in my life. The Radiography Course was a three-year course. The Royal Melbourne Technical College (later to become RMIT) ran a correspondence school and Diagnostic Radiography was one of the diploma courses. All Australian radiography students who were not in either Melbourne or Sydney were trained by RMTC. The other requirement was that you were employed full time in a hospital with X-Ray equipment. From day one, I was taking x-rays ... under supervision at first, of course. Have to say though, my first year involved a lot of dark room work,
and it was all wet developing then. The other thing you did a lot of, was arms and legs. You pushed the portable machine around a lot. I was very new when I first went to an operating theatre to observe an amputation. I still don‘t like to see legs in buckets.
Marjorie Hanson, 32 years an Anglesea resident I enjoyed my training, and it was good to be at the same hospital as many of my old school friends who were training as nurses. On looking back one of the more interesting aspects, in light of today's acceptance of modern communications, was that from my second year, I was rostered ―on call.― We didn‘t have a phone so if I was wanted at the hospital, a taxi was sent to collect me. Continued page 6 French physicist Henri Becquerel, accidentally discovered radioactivity in 1896 while experimenting. The discovery led Becquerel to investigate the nuclear radiation which eventually led to its use as nuclear medicine.
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