RED CROSS WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1922, Page 2

RED CROSS WORKERS

PEACE-TIME ACTIVITIES.

Mr. T. Munt pieuded at » meeting of the Peace-Time branch of the Red Cross ■ Society held yesterday afternoon. A communication was received''from Dr. Sand, Director-General for: the : League of* Bed Cross Societies, Geneva,'■■';•" outlining, the great programme of Peace , Time Activity, ■ upon which ' the ■• Red Cross societies throughout the -.:, world ,had embarked. The efforts so far made in expanding widely among the public -. principles of hygiene, which would keep '' the ' nations more vigorous,, more pros-.._-• perous, and more free from imisery re- •' suiting from neglect of their health had ,)"■■ been attended with eminently■isatisfas-1; '' tory results. The Eed Crbss is .charged ' to assist in _ every, way the task, 'of its ' member societies in the domain of the general organisation', of popular health instrjuction, of public health musing, and of the Bed Cross moyemerit.' - • . ' The appointments of Dr. L.. M. L. ' Morgan to'_ the position of Organiser, and of Sister Lewis (late of the Orthopaedic Hospital, Trenthani)' to.'that-of, . Red Cross Nurse were confirmed.!. The chairman took the opportunity of .introducing the, appointees, and referred to the distinguished-war service-which': :■■'■ they had had in the Medical and.Nurs-.. ■ ing. Services respectively .\ '..... '■;'- • ,--. r ;\ .*, Dr. Morgan thanked the. committee, and expressed his conviction of the - , cessity |or the work from J:.. a-'.health:..-/ point of view tp the .community'ln^ gen-•.-.■', '-",.• eral. '■•■..■'-... ."'. '".'■:.:.: -'-'^ V'V-. ,"■-■-, V- : la the near future he would visit Hhe . : various Eed Cross committees through-^ .."; out the Wellington district with: a view to stimulating interest in, and'enthus-; iasm for, the ideals' for which the soc'-s iety stood.";' '"• "; : „'.': i '"' '.."';, ■• ■"'. :', Sister, Lewis returned thanks for, the ' way in : which she had been; received.? v '" la connection with the Work of the . : Red Cross nurses/ several of 'the, ladies ' of the committee signified -their, readU; ness to co-operate with Sister Lewis Hby .visiting and rendering practical help to "those in indigent circumstances1, afflicted by sickness. By way of making thi« v . assistance more effective, it was decided that Sister L*wi«;fehould give a ; demonstration in the simple practice c-f home v nursing: to the ladies of the committee and their • friends. This will take place in the Red Cross, rooms at 2.30 p.m..'• on Wednesday,, 30th August, • : ■:■'■■" . Correspondence.; was • received, from ~ Wanganui regarding the loan of'an am-.' hulance, and Miss Griffiths,; Secretary of the Peace-Time ■' ,Lady Workers' Com- -, mittee. submitted a report jiion-. '■'.' the I work that had beeii' done;. dur-' ' ( ing ' the month. 7 It"^- stated.;' that. -• as the. result of their' labours, 153 ■ articles of warm ■ and useful children's clothing had "been dispatched ,to the \-"\, ■matrons in charge of; hospitals at which children,suffering from infantile paralynsis were under treatment... :; ■"■/.;