FIRST AID ON WATERFRONT

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32788, 13 December 1971, Page 23

FIRST AID ON WATERFRONT

First lid on tho Lyttelton waterfront Is wsll organised to cope with Occidents. With a large lobour force such os Lyttelton has, accidents must be expected. In the Centennial Hall, right on the waterfront, there is an industrial health clinic. This is staffed jointly by the Health Department and the Waterfront Industry Commission. Two trained nurses are on duty at the clinic in daylight hours. They are Miss B. Bascand, of the Health Department, and Mrs M. Collier, who is employed by the Waterfront Industry Commission. When supplementary hours are being worked in the evening there is always a trained nurse from the nurses’ bureau In Christchurch on duty at the clinic. Miss Bascand begins work at 7 a.m. and works until 3.30 p.m., from Monday to Friday. Mrs Collier comes on duty at 2.30 p.m. and works until 6 p.m., but she also works from 7 a.m until 5 p.m. on Saturdays. The clinic handles more than 2000 patients a year. The patients are not only waterfront workers, but also men from the local shipyards, engineering works and other port sources. Barefoot children with wharf splinters in their feet also have been known to attend the clinic. The clinic nurses work closely with the two doctors at the port and also with members of the St John Ambulance Brigade. About 30 waterslders who are specially trained in first aid and wear white safety helmets for identification, also co-operate with the clinic nurses. Some of these men are also members of the St John Ambulance Brigade at Lyttelton. The clinic nurses, in addition to giving treatment at the clinic, have to sometimes go aboard ships and give treatment on the spot, even at the bottom of a hold If necessary. Usually, however, waterslders trained in first aid are handy at such times and attend to these cases. In addition to treating patients, the nurses have to check first aid equipment regularly at the smaller Cashin Quay clinic and at shipyards and engineering works in the area, ft injury cases are very serious they are taken straight to the doctor on duty or straight to a city hospital, but, by and large, the clinic handles most of the cases first. Another first aid innovation at Lyttelton is the siren on Gladstone Pier.’ This is controlled from the clinic when a doctor is needed quickly and can be heard all over the waterfront.

ARRIVALS Saturday Maori (6.37 a m.), 7490, Capt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wellington (U.S.S.). Tawanui <6.3 p.m.), 891, Capt. N. W. Woollett, Wanganui (N.S.S.). St Constantine <6.50 p.m.), 9438, Wellington (Guthrey). Sunday Maori (6.58 a.m.). 7490, Capt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wellington (U.s.s.). Holmlea (7.9 a.m ). 1106, Capt. E. Savage, Wellington (U.S.S.). Holmwood (5.5 p.m.), 797, Capt. A. B. Moko Moko, Onebunga (Holm). DEPARTURES Saturday Maori (9.30 a.m.), 7490, Capt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wellington (U.S.S.). (Daylight). Abel Tasman (3.20 p.m.), 2681, (U^‘s) A ’ Brodie - welltogton Sunday Maori (8.35 p.m.), 7490, Capt. R. ?U S f“ i!h ’ wllli,m5 ’ Wellington EXPECTED ARRIVALS Holmdale, Chathams, today. Hawea, Auckland, today. Pukeko, Napier, Dec. 14. Maori, Wellington, Dec. 14. Kaitoa, Tauranga, Dec. 14. Korean Prince, Auckland, Dec. Parera, Onehunga, Dec. 15 Hygromia, Marsden Point. Dec. 16. Tiber, Wellington, Dec. 16. Ocean Mars, New Plymouth, Dec. 16. Port Brisbane, Wellington, Dec. 17. Hobart Star, Durban, Dec. 17. Southland Star, Nelson, Dec. 18. Port Chalmers. Wellington, Dec. 18. Huntingdon, Wellington, Dec. 18. Haurakl, New Plymouth, Dec. 18. Kowhal, Sydney, Dec. 19. Britannic, Wellington. Dec. 19. Cretic, West Indies, Dec. 19. Larchbank, Wellington, Dec. 21. Maheno, Wellington, Dec. 22. Elkei Maru, Kobe, Dec. 22. Suez Maru. Bluff, Dec. 23. Luhesand. Rarotonga. Dec. 30. Jinyo Maru, Wellington, Dec. 30. Tongariro, Wellington, Dec. 31. Natko Nodllo, Auckland, Jan. 2. Port Sydney Curacao, Jan. 4. Holmburn, Brisbane, Jan. 4. U.SJJ.S. Private John R. Towle, Davlsville, Jan. 5. Cape Sable, Christmas Island, Jan. 6. Crusader. Wellington, Jan. 6. U.S.N.S. Eltanin, sea. Jan. 6. Burgenstein, Wellington, Jan. 7. Gamma. Allardyce, Jan. 7.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES Holmlea, Wellington, today. Tawaqui, Tauranga, today.