BEDPAN

Description: WHITE ENAMELLED WITH BLACK EDGES. HAS A URINAL ATTACHED. ROUND LID IS SEPARATE FROM REST OF PAN. LID HAS A BLACK HANDLE. THERE IS A LARGE CHIP IN ENAMEL ON UNDERSIDE OF PAN ALONG WITH A FEW SMALLER ONES. ENAMEL IS ALSO CHIPPED ALONG ONE EDGE ON TOP OF BEDPAN. ENAMEL IS ALSO WORN ON 2 SPOTS ON LID.

History: DONOR STATES BEDPAN IS FROM THE VAN HAARLEM HOSPITAL, IN LETHBRIDGE. DONOR'S MOTHER, SOPHIA DUNN (NEE ENGEN), GAVE BIRTH TO DONOR AND HER TWIN BROTHER, MYRLE, THERE. SOPHIA CONTRACTED AN ILLNESS THAT INFECTED BEDPANS IN THE HOSPITAL, AND RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF 8 OR 9 WOMEN IN THE HOSPITAL. WHEN SOPHIA BECAME ILL SHE LEFT THE HOSPITAL TO BE TAKEN CARE OF AT DR. WOODCOCK'S HOUSE. DR. WOODCOCK WAS DONOR'S UNCLE (SOPHIA'S BROTHER-IN-LAW), AND SOPHIA FELT MORE COMFORTABLE THERE THAN STAYING AT THE HOSPITAL. BECAUSE BEDPAN WAS INFECTED, IT LEFT WITH SOPHIA WHEN SHE MOVED FROM THE HOSPITAL TO DR. WOODCOCK'S HOUSE. DONOR WAS BORN JUNE, 1920 AND HER MOTHER PASSED AWAY IN AUGUST OF THAT YEAR. DONOR AND HER TWIN BROTHER, AND AN OLDER SISTER, MERLENE, WERE RAISED BY THEIR GRANDPARENTS, MR & MRS. C.K. ENGEN. THE BEDPAN HAS JUST BEEN STORED AWAY SINCE THEN AS FAR AS DONOR CAN REMEMBER. SEE P20020075001-3-GA FOR MORE HISTORY ON DR. WOODCOCK AND P19738569000-GA FOR MORE HISTORY ON DONOR'S FAMILY.