WORK FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3175, 28 August 1917, Page 2

WORK FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED

A COMBINED OEGAtfISATIOX. Fruni tho aunual report of (he Chapter Genera! of tho Order of St. John of Jerusalem tho following' extracts have boon gleaned o£ } wiiat is being done for oiiir sick and wounded:— The Joint Committee of tho Order of St. John of Jerusalem and the British Kcd Cross Society has in France and Belgium 1185 motor ambulances, between four ond fivo hundred other.motor vehicles, and four hospital trains, cacli to carry -JiiO patients. In' Mesopotamia, there ai:e M motor ambulances. .It supplies stores and medicines to hospitals in England an<l France, to 75 military and naval hospitals in tho Mediterranean area, to hospitals in Fast Africa, arid in iUissiii. Four -unite arc working .vHh tho Italian Army; ten motor ambulances and two motor kitchens havo been presented to , tho Caucasian Red Cross .Society.

For tho year ended October 30, JOlfi, the recnipts of this Joint Committee amounted Lo «e3,0Gf,233 7s. Id.; the expenditure to JE1,515,35!1 os. 7d., and at tho übovo date, including the bnlancobrought forward froiu the previous year, they had in hand XI.iVO.6W is. Id. .

Tho SI". John Ambulance Association during tho year ended September 30, 1916, issued certificates in first aid, home nursing, und hygieno to .'K.SSS men ami 45 215 women, a. total of 77,17,1. the ftt. John Ambulance Brigade furnished 2'.',279 men "to tho military authorities, privato hospitals, and hospital ships from the outbreak of the- war to Dccombcr 8, 1016. . • ' Tho number of women on active, service whs 1720, and over IKK) women were working in private hospitals in. London. The strength of the brigado on bc-p-I ember 30, 1016, was 13,277 men and 10.-57-t women. . Of the St. John Ambulance brigade Overseas now units wore i formed as fol)oivs._[u Australia, S; in Canada, 10; in Ceylon, 2; in Horig Kong, 4; in liuiia, 3; in Now Zealand, 7; toUl. 31, Tho strength of tho Brigade Overseas may beapproximately stated at 7800. The number of members ol the Brigade Ovoiseas who have gone to England as voluntary aid probationers is. ICI, viz. Australia, 15; Canada, 89; India, 5; Newfoundland. 10; New Zealand, 12; South Africa, in; Hong Kong. 1: feylon, 1 Theeo are all working usefully under lite Joint V.A.I). Committee of tho Order and British Kcd Cross Society.