FIRST-AID SESSIONS
“Disappointing Response” The public response to instruction sessions in first aid, organised by the St John Ambulance Association, had been very disappointing, the secretary of the association (Mr G. A. Brown) said. The sessions, the first to be organised in Christchurch, were held daily in the St John Ambulance Hall in Peterborough street between December 5 and 21. Mr Brown said that an average of three persons attended each session. Lectures given by doctors, brigade first-aid instructors, and brigade members included instruction on the treatment of wounds, hemorrhages, fractures, bums, scalds, resuscitation and hygiene at holiday camps. A film on resuscitation, illustrating both the mouth-to-mouth and mouth-to-nose methods, was shown. Mr Brown said he did not know why the response was so poor. About 25,000 leaflets advertising the sessions had been sent to secondary schools and to local bodies.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31256, 31 December 1966, Page 17
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