ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 12

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

STREET APPEAL TO-DAY GREAT COMMUNITY SERVICE Confident that its claims upon public support arc of the strongest and in many respects unique, the St. John Ambulance Association will make its annual street. appeal to-day. Its service to the community is a many-sided and continually growing one, and there is no responsible person who would wish to see its activities in any way curtailed. Relying on the continued goodwill and generosity of the public'whom it exists to serve the association follows a policy of continued advance to meet the ever-growing demands that are made upon its resources. The bare figures of its past year's work are eloquent of a widespread and far-reaching service rendered to the unfortunate in time of neq& Its eight ambulimces have transported nearly 10,000 patients, and have travelled 66,000 miles in doing so. Its skilled district nurses have made'more than 12,000 visits to homes where sickness has entered, and its clinic at the ambulance station has been visited by more than 3000. . Thirty sports grounds are patrolled each week-end voluntarily by its officers in readiness to render first aid as required. Many thousands of first aid treatments are given annually by its nurses in missions and kindergartens, and from its medical comforts depot more than 500 useful articles have been loaned. As a result of its training classes 1804 people have received practical instruction in first aid or home nursing. With the single exception of the Borough of Mount Eden all local authorities in the metropolitan area have given permission for the street collection to be made within their bounds to-day. The Mount Eden Borough Council, in lieu of giving permission, increased its donation to £lO 10s.