RED CROSS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 14 November 1930, Page 2

RED CROSS.

BRITISH EMPIRE CONFERENCE. OFFICIAL REPORT. (rsox OOJL ' <ywar coxxssfoir>Xs*L*.) LONDON, October 9. A. reminder /of the 1 British Empire Bed Cross Conference held in London In May comes in the 'shape of "the official report of the proceedings of that conference. It will be remembered that New Zealand was represented by Mr Bernard Tripp, the Bev. V. G. Bryan King, Dr. J. H. Beaumont, Miss J. 33. .Murray, and Miss Sybil Nathan-' In the report is published for the' first time a mass of information about the varied activities of the ,£ted Cross overseas, A. vivid impression may be .gained of the achievements of the Societ.y in the improvement of health, the. prevention of disease, and -the mitigation of suffering throughout ; the Empire.. '• 'Since the war the Red Cross has supplemented its primary work of helping the sick and wounded in time of war by directing , the energy'of its great army of voluntary workers, into peacetime! channels. In this country that •energy is expressed in the Society's ambulance and first aid service on the roads, at race meetings, and exhibitions—whereveT, in fact, it is likely to beheeded; in the provision of medical supplies and hospital libraries; in hospital and home nursing; in the administration of. orthopmdic clinics, children's welfare and school treatment centres and day nurseries; in the establishment of a magnificent research and treatment clinic for rheumatism; in the finest blood transfusion service in the world, and in general health education, by means of travelling lecturers. . The report reminds us that New Zealand's health needs are so similar to i those, of Great Britain that there the Bed Gross work is practically the same. It, looks after all ;the -sick and disabled - ex-Service men in the Dominion, running four convalescent homes for them an 1 providing entertainments, and comforts for-those in hospital, or, finding suitable work and assistance _f or those requiring it. In it trains workers in first aid, home nursing and hygiene, and organises V.A.D. detachments ' for service in epidemics and disasters.

A section of the report is devoted to a comprehensive account of the work in New Zealand. ' . '