HELPING SICK POOR

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 19

HELPING SICK POOR

DISTRICT NURSING GUILD

A heavy and busy month for the nurses of the District Nursing Guild of St. John was reported at tho recent meeting at which Mrs. 'Stace presided.

It was most gratifying to learn that through the kindness of friends and citizens the nurses wero able to supply blankets and bed clothing to twentyseven families, also eighty families among the sick poor received Icwt of coal. Many letters of thanks and appreciation were received by tho nurses.

Diseases, .treated during the month included influenza, pneumonia, bronchitis, cardiac, carcinoma, varicose ulcers, and various injuries. Patients admitted during July numbered v's, patients discharged 52, patients sent to hospital 3, and ono patient died, leaving 27 .on. tho register.., The sisters paid 247 visits to homes,' and patients' visits to tho surgery totalled 21". (

Donations were . received as follows: For general fund, Mrs. J. P. Firth and Miss M. 11. Archibald, £1 Is each. Belief of distress, Mrs. Norwood, £5; "G.," 10s. Coal fund, the Misses Evans,: £1 10s; Mrs. L. Blundell and Miss E. j Williams, 10s each; Mrs. D. Barnes, I £1. Blankets, the Misses Evans, £1. j Donations in kind were received from j the following.:. Lady Myers, Mrs. Barl- i trop, Mrs. Osborne, Mrs. Dodds, Mrs. | Griffiths, Mrs. Bannister, Miss .I:'.. I Young, Mrs.. Holmes, Miss. Aitken, Mivi L. Blundell Rowland Cake Kitchen, | Chiiton -St> James, Busy Bee Club, Mrs. D. Banies, Khandallah Siclc Poor Guild, Mrs. Addley, Mrs. Baleoinbe Brown, Mrs. Weir, Mrs. Preston, . Mrs. Lea,-| Miss Ransen, Mrs. H. Smith, Mrs. j Gow, Mrs. T. Young, Mrs. Rhind. I

The president and committee members attended the funeral service of the late Mr. W. B. Fisher. Mr. Fisher was the founder of the District Nursing Guild of St. John, and called the first meeting. The late Lady Johnston was the first president, and Mrs. W. B. Fisher was a member of the committee and afterwards secretary and treasurer for the guild. At the meeting a vote of sympathy was passed to Mrs. W. B. Fisher and relatives of the late Mr. Fisher. '