FIRST-AID IN THE SCHOOLS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21246, 18 August 1934, Page 10

FIRST-AID IN THE SCHOOLS

«— DECISION OF EDUCATION BOARD A decision to ask the senior inspee*' tor (Mr McNeil) to furnish a report as to whether the provisions for ; t&« teaching of first-aid in the schools#«« being carried out and whether' ahytWtf further could be clone in this directs was reached by the Canterbury JW«* cation Board after a deputation iron the St. John Ambulance Association had waited on it yesterday morning. The deputation, consisting of Dr. * It. Thomas and Mr J. W. CrampMjJ urged that teachers and the -ON* pupils should be given instruction w first-aid. ~,« At the request of the chairman W C. S. Thompson). Mr McNeil explains to the deputation that before beiM granted certificates teachers had w qualify in first-aid. Instruction in uiw aid was included in the school syu» A letter was received from the tea* teacher of the Ladbrooks School «x pressing amazement at the sentto*"" expressed at a meeting of the St. J on» I Ambulance Association, reported ' •'The Press" of August 2. which, S" said, reflected on the whole tcacNW profession. She explained that i'|j& case referred to by Mr Cramplon c» had been called to attend a gui w had been hurt. She found the ■ J* sitting up on the front seat of a tnw« lorry, and the teacher placed Her « a mattress and did what she coiun ' keep her warm and comforttblc pen ing the arrival of a doctor. The sm gestion she had made to the St «">» Ambulance Association was uw Ae leclu:- should be siven not to w children, but to the residents w fl district. -When I say that his UW» girl, only seven years olfl, "j?. JCtf. placed on a lorry cabin seat WW« ! fering from a compound "' acw „li e r ) the foreleg and thigh, do y° u XTdW that I wanted every man Iti W rf trict to know what to do in . frLw, road accident?" asked the added that both she and her »®»Tm . had taken first-aid lectures »>«* quite competent to deal with ortw«u# playground accidents.

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