ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 98, 28 April 1933, Page 9

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.

SERVICE TO PUBLIC.

Some interesting information with regard to the work of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas within the Dominion of New Zealand during the past year is given in the annual report of the chief commissioner (Colonel G. Barclay). The number of services performed by members of the brigade during the year was 50,875, against 42,436 for 1931 and 38,204 for 1930. These services represent cases of first aid, nursing, transport, and hospital attendances undertaken by members. The number of cases of first aid attended to by members while on public duty totalled 26,207, against 17,954 for the previous year. Public duty _ includes attendance at all kinds of public gatherings—athletic and race meetings, sport®, picnics, etc., and each year increased demands continue to be made for the attendance of brigade members at sucli functions. The number of cases of first aid attended to by members when not on public duty was 19,282, against 19,102 for the year preceding. The number of hospital attendances put in by ambulance sisters was 230. These figures were contributed chiefly by the nursing divisions in Wellington, where members attend the Public Hospital on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and assist in the various wards, a service which is much appreciated by the hospital authorities as well as the brigade. The number of cases nursed privately by members of nursing divisions was 1130. The ambulance sisters' services are available when required to assist district nurses, and in other ways.