BUSY YEAR OF SERVICE
ST. JOHN FREE AMBULANCE
Statistics for the St. John Free Ambulance, Wanganui, show that the service experienced a busy year in 1942. Cases dealt with totalled 1112, of which 105 were due to accidents. The ambulance vehicles covered a distance of 12,866 miles, including trips to Cambridge, Palmerston North, Otaki, Wellington, Jerusalem, Pipiriki, Taihape, Waverley. Raetihi, Waitotara, and Whenuakura. In 1941 the ambulance transported 1384 cases, including 139 accident cases, and travelled 11,389 miles. Many of these were soldiers sent to Wanganui for treatment in St. Paul’s Emergency Hospital. The ambulances have travelled 93 654 miles since the inauguration of the service, and 7734 cases were transported.
A busy period was experienced in March last, when 37 soldier cases were transported in three days. August was also another busy period in which the ambulance dealt with 61 cases in 13 days, 16 of these being country calls. In that period the vehicles travelled 820 miles. was also a trip to Cambridge, which brought the mileage up to 1257. The service is equipped with three ambulances, which are driven by the transport officer-secretary and two women. Volunteer women drivers also assist during the day. and volunteer men are on dutv at night.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 1, 2 January 1943, Page 4
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205BUSY YEAR OF SERVICE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 1, 2 January 1943, Page 4
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