SERVICE FOR MANKIND.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 10

SERVICE FOR MANKIND.

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

ASSOCIATION.

SUCCESSFUL YEAR'S WORK.

The St. John Ambulance Association, ©r "Zambucks,"' as they are more affectionately termed, are performing a great ■work, not only in Auckland, but throughout the Dominion, and therefore, it is gratifying to note that, according to the thirty-fifth annual report of the local branch, they have completed another successful year's service for the benefit of mankind. Not only does an efficient fleet of ambulances attend to emergency cases, and street accidents with dispatch, but the brigadesmen are conspicuous figures on the sports fields, where they attend to injuries received by players.

The annual report points out that the first aid and home nursing lectures, largely given in the schools in the city and suburbs, were attended by 1049 pupils during the year. The district nurses paid 5691 visits to 817 patients, and rendered skilled assistance to 86 outpatients. It was desirable that arrangements should be made for visiting Onehunga and Point Chevalier,- and for this work another nurse would be required. The sum of £100 had been expended on comforts for the sick and'poor. Donations of bandages, articles of clothing and comforts for the aged are acknowledged. The work of the motor ambulance service had been most satisfactory, the number of cases having been 998, and the distance travelled 6804 miles. In addition to transport work, the officers had rendered first aid to 2197 patients at the ambulance station at Queen's wharf. The campaign to produce funds for the maintenance of the work of the association carried out by Dr. Hilda Xorthcroft resulted in £1517 being netted.

The committee urges on members and friends of the association, the desirability of increasing the capital fund of the centre in order to obviate the necessity of making public appeals. The St John Ambulance sub-committee and the Mayoress' Memorial Library League had done a large amount of work during the year, having supplied books and magazines to returned soldiers in settlements forestry, prison and construction camps etc., and also to soldiers in convalescent iiomes.