ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
Year’s Activities Reviewed The annual report of the St. John Ambulance Association for New Zealand states that the reports from corps and divisions throughout • New Zealand show the number of services performed during the year to be 114,890, against 10,093 for 1939. The cases of first aid attended to on public duty totalled 30,388, against 39,595 for the previous year. The number of cases of first aid. attended to not on public duty totalled 47,266, against 54,272. The removal or transport work in which members of the brigade assisted amounted to 10,939 cases, against 8386. During the year members attended regularly at ambulance stations, and when calls came went out as assistants to the drivers of the motor ambulances. There was a total attendance of 12,609, and the time put in amounted to 66,574 hours. The number of hospital attendances was 2990. The number of cases nursed privately by members of nursing divisions totalled 1891, against 1397 for 1939. Cases treated at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition from January 1, 1940, till the closing on May 7, 1940, totalled 2111, and the total first aid cases attended to during the currency of the Exhibition were 3195.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 157, 29 March 1941, Page 9
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199ST. JOHN AMBULANCE Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 157, 29 March 1941, Page 9
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