RED CROSS WORK IN ENGLAND.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13747, 9 April 1915, Page 5

RED CROSS WORK IN ENGLAND.

Captain F. Colchester- "Weniyss, the CQuntv director of voluntary aid, Gloucestershire branch of the British Red Cross Society, in a letter to Mrs Lock, Mayoress of Nelson, under date Gloucester, February 16th, says:— ■ "J write to you m reply to a letter received from Mrs Matthews, dated at Nelson; January sth last, with which she enclosed a list of articles packed in an ambulance chest which had been shipped to me on the 23rd December. Will you please accept the most hearty tfoaflhs of the Gloucestershire branch of tha -lied- Gross Bocity for tins most welcome contribution 'J It may interest Yon to know that, working with the military hospital in Bristol, which has Scommodation for 070 beds, and wluch receives wounded direct from overseas, we have in Gloucestershire a large number of vohmtary aid hospitals, each accommodating 50 bods ami. upwaids the primary StiU of xrmch is to take the Transfers from neigjibf.nrin« mibtary h^pltals a« they become crowded. ■We Iwvo aocominodation in our county voluntary aid hospitals or over 1000 feds which accommodation can b© largely extended if the necessity ever arises."