Red Cross Activities

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 July 1923, Page 106

Red Cross Activities

During the outbreak of diphtheria in Wellington, the Red Cross nurses, Sisters Lewis and Edith Webster, who recently returned from England after their special Public Health course, have been very busy lecturing in different parts of the city and suburbs on the care of children, with special reference to the present prevailing illness. Talks were held every afternoon, in the Red Cross rooms, to mothers and other persons who were cordially invited, and Sister Webster also gave a very instructive and lucid lecture on the preventive treatment and on the treatment of children with diphtheria. Sister Webster has gone to New Plymouth, to carry on in the Taranaki district the work for which she has been appointed by the Red Cross. This will

probably involve travelling to country parts and lecturing and demonstrating the art of home nursing and inculcating the principles of hygiene.

It is reported that the Eastern Harbour branch of the Red Cross desires to collect funds for an emergency or cottage hospital as a memorial to the fallen soldiers who wont from the Eastern Harbour district. A modest beginning will be aimed at, just a large room with nurse's quarters, and for the time being a district nurse, capable in every way of attending to any emergency that may arise — a very nominal fee to be made. It was also proposed that the room could be partitioned, and one part of it used by the Plunket Society, which is doing such a fine work in the borough.