Essondale Patient File for Aiko Chiba
Description
Title Proper | 93-5683 BOX 1307 FILE 21407 |
Date(s) | 1943 |
General material designation |
This file contains a textual record.
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Scope and content |
Aiko Chiba was admitted on 8 December 1943; diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. She was tormented
by another patient because she was Japanese. She also heard the voice of a boy she
fell in love with at Hastings Park. She had a detailed vivid recollection of every family and where they sat on the
train to Slocan. "Feels her people have been persecuted without cause." Sympathizes with Japan war effort, and allies. Lots of family and friends visit. File contains correspondence
from the BCSC, the Canadian-Japanese Department, and a letter from Chiba to her doctor asking when
she can return to her family. Chiba died on 6 May 1963 from pulmonary edema.
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Name of creator |
British Columbia. Mental Health Services
created this archive which were transferred to the BC Archives from 1987 to 2000.
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Immediate source of acquisition |
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research
Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized selectively.
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Structure
Repository | British Columbia Archives |
Fonds | Riverview Mental Hospital |
Series | 93-5683 BOX 1307 |
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Title
Essondale Patient File for Aiko Chiba
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