NEW ST. HELENS HOSPITAL

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24187, 21 February 1944, Page 2

NEW ST. HELENS HOSPITAL

FOUNDATION STONE THIS YEAJR MINISTER’S ASSURANCE A letter from the Minister of Health (the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer) was read at a meeting of the Friends of St. Helens in which he assured members that he had no doubt that the foundation stone of the new St. Helens xiospital would be laid this year. He added that Government architects were at present working oh plans for this building. , w Arrangements were made for a bring and buy to be held at “Venlaw,” St. Andrews Hill, the home of the president, Mrs A, C. Sandston. at the end of the month. Plans were discussed for sending a further shipment of dried milk to the Queen Charlotte Hospital, London. DANGEROUS WORK FOR WOMEN Five young women in New York City who work daily on dangerous war jobs recently told of their work and how they keep themselves from injury through safety rules, in interviews arranged by the National Safety Council, says a publication by the United States Office of War Information. One woman who works at the E. R. Squibbs and Sons laboratory eight hours a day with typhus vaccine, is the mother of three children and wife of an Army man who has just returned from 10 months in the South Pacific. She said: “None of us has contracted typhus yet, though we work with it all day. We wear long sleeves, masks, and goggles, and rubber gloves, and try to take every care. I’ve had six vaccine shots as a precaution.” Another works in below-freez-ing temperatures in a laboratory helping process serum albumen, which does much the same work as blood plasma. She says she and her fellow workers must be on constant guard against pneumonia, adding: “We wear heavy jackets, slacks, wool socks, and shoes, and heavy boots over them." A third is in charge of rigging parachutes. She herself is a veteran of 51 parachute jumps. Another works with methyl bromide gas on a project to keep lice out of this war. She must guard against escaping gas and inhaling it while filling storage tubes. The fifth is on a job that requires extreme care—she packs morphine syrettes. The drug is dangerous to the eyes and can cause a rash on the skin.