RED CROSS SOCIETY

Southland Times, Issue 17652, 9 February 1916, Page 2

RED CROSS SOCIETY

BIST OK GENERAL REQUJ REM ENTS

In view of the number of people throughout .Southland ivho are now devoting spare time to Red Cross work, the following list of general requirements will ho of assistance; —

Air pillows and cushions: asli trays; bed jackets, llannel, natural colour or red; bed socks, with or without heels, white, grey or fawn; bedsteads, complete: belts, flannel; blankets, white or coloured; books and periodicals; bootlaces; brushes, hair, tooth, nail, and shaving; caps, cloth: cardigans: chest protectors; cigarettes: combs; condensed milk; crutches; dressing gowns, 46 and 4 8 chest, length 55 to 58; dusters, kitchen cloths, and knitted swabs, 12in. square; games, indoor and outdoor, puzzles, etc. ; handkerchiefs, red, white, or khaki; hot water bottles, earthenware or rubber, and flannel covers; housewives; jug and cup covers, in butter muslin, weighted with beads, sizes 6, 8, 10 and 12 inches square; kit bags; knee caps; mackintosh sheets; matches, safety (small boxes arc most useful); medical comforts, such as Oxn, Brand’s Essence, Valentine’s Moat Juice, etc. ; meat extracts: medical stores, lint, wool, gauze, boracic acid powder, boraeie ointment, vaseline, etc. ; milk, condensed: mittens and gloves: mufflers: Nightingales, flannel, natural colour or red: old linen: operation gowns, for surgeons: operation sleeves; operation stockings, in white wool or flannel; pants, woven, thick and thin, full size; pillow cases, 36 by 20, no buttons or tapes; pillows, feather, 30 by IS; pipes; pneumonia jackets, Gamjee tissue; pyjamas, flannel and good Horroeks’ flannelette. cheat 46 and IS; quilts, for single beds: razors and safety razors; rugs; sheets, for single hods; shirts, day, flannel, natural colour, khaki or grey, and Oxford shirting, 16, 16’A, and 17 indies neck measurement; shirts, night, flannel and cotton with turnover collar, 17, 17’A and IS indies neck measurement; shoes and boots; soap: socks, with heels, sizes 11, 11% and 12 inches; splints, 45 by 3, 24 by 3, 22 by 12 by 3 inches; sponges and washing gloves: stationery, writing blocks, post cards, etc. : stretchers; suits and overcoats; sweets, chocolate, peppermint, etc. ; tinned soups; towels, bath, huckaback and round, 3 yards long; utensils, feeding cups, spit cups, etc., china or enamel; vets, woven or flannel; walking sticks; ward slippers, felt; ward suits, dark blue drill or serge, trimmed red. Tile rooms of the local Society are over the Union Bank, and all information can bo obtained from the President, Miss Thomson, or Alisa Birss, secretary, hours of attendance at the rooms being; Wednesdays, 11 to 1 and 2 to 4; Saturdays, 3 1 co 4. BANDAGE WORK. Tliis division is under Mrs W. Handyside and Airs J. Petrie, from whom information may be obtained. Following is a list of the articles used, with general instructions; —2 inch bandages Gyds long (old sheeting or new calico); 3 inch bandages 6yds long (old sheeting or now calico); 4 inch bandages 6yds long (old sheeting or now calico); 3 inch flannel bandages 4yds long: 4 inch flannel bandages 4yds long (new white flannel); triangular bandages, unbleached calico, new, 40 inches square: manitail bandages, white flannelette, new, oiin. long: binders, unbleached calico, now, I '}i yds long by 15 inches double; surgical veils, 36 inches square (hemmed muslin); fomentations (old blankets or woollen material, 10 x 8 to 12 x 10 inches); toilet squares (Turkish towelling, old. 12 x 12 inches, or of cotton knitted); wringers (new Forfar roller towelling, 16 x 20 inches, I’/>in. hem); dietclotlis (old table linen, 12 x 15 inches): operation cloths (old calico about 16 x IS to 36 inches square, hemmed): bottle covers (coloured woollen or linen cloth, old, 14 by 12 inches): medicine cloths (old calico or table linen about 12 x 8 unhemmed); swabs (antiseptic absorbent cotton or muslin): disb towels (new Forfar or glass cloth); dusters (.coloured cotton material, hemmed). Don’t hem triangular bandages or medicine cloths; don’t cut flannel or blanket, tear it; don’t put cotton materials into fomentations; don’t use buttons or domes on bottle covers, run a tape .through the top; don’t use other than rust-proof safety pins; don’t put small pins in anything: don’t make roller bandages by hand; old linen sterilised may bo had on application (free) at the depot, also all new materials necessary, al wholesale cost, and bandage winders at 4/6 each; bandages must be joined and tied as per sample (samples of the above may be had free on application): tic everything securely into packets of ten, except Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 17; swabs, bandages and medicine cloths must be packed in different boxes lined with white paper; all seams on the outside except hems; all men’s garments fastened from left to right. All calico and flannelette garments must be washed before being sent in. BRANCH FORMED AT EDENDALE. A well-attended meeting of ladies was held in tlie Public Hall, Edendale, on Thursday afternoon, 3rd inst, for the purpose of forming a branch of the Red Cross Society. Airs Horace Niven, as convener, explained tlie object for which the meeting had been calied. and after discussion it was unanimously resolved that a branch of the Society in question be formed. The following committee was elected; —President, Airs W. P. Smith; vice-presidents, Mesdanies John Milne, D. Tither, and J. Hood; secretary, Mrs Horace Niven; committee,’ Mesdames Pringle, Findlay, Taylor, Frost, Barnett, Chism, Lament, Chas. Milne, Sawera, Hodge, Alisses AVennerbeek, Ward (2), G. CTanstoun, Hall, Cormack, Smith, J. Ale Dona Id, Marshall (3), Morland, with power to add. It was decided to accept an offer made by Mrs McKenzie, of Queenstown, to hold a sale of Indian goods, in conjunction with produce, fruit, and refreshments (stalls to lie conducted by the Bed Cross Ladies’ Committee), on IGth

and 17th inst. The various stalls were allotted, and a strong committee of young' ladies set up to canvass all parts of the district for donations of produce, etc. The committee meet next Thursday afternoon, at 2.30 o’clock, to report progress.