RED CROSS PEACE-TIME WORK.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18237, 22 November 1924, Page 2

RED CROSS PEACE-TIME WORK.

The classes in Home Nursing and FirstAid, which have been held in North Canterbury districts under the außpices of the New Zealand branch of the British. Reel Cross Society and the Order of St. John, have been concluded, ahd examinations held. The results are qs follows: — Home Nursing—WaikaTi: Eighteen students attended lectures, tho following passed: Misses M. E. Edwards, E. M. Farquhar, R. N. Foster, A. A. Keppler, M. E. Header, J. M. Reader, H. Heron. ' Kaiapoi—Eleven students attended: Mrs a. G-. Moreland, Misses H. Hill, M. S. Gillett, C. E. Taylor, V. B. Papprill, G. Mcintosh Twenty students attended: Mesdames A. McQuillan, E. Morris, Misse* H. Judgaon, J. Kobinson, K. M. Tnl-1, F. M. Orchard passed. ~ , , Woodend—Twenty-five students attended. Misses M. Graham, R. Ford, G. Hopkins, N. Robertson, U. Moody passed. ICangiora—Eighteen students attended. Mesdames" H. Middleton, E A. Stanton, H. M. Tong, Misses F. H. Whitley, I. Graham P Oxford—Thirty-fivo students: Mrs A. M. Mann, Misses M. Cook, M. Roe, J. Wotheropoon' E. Russell, M. McConnell, M. Baxter, L. Rossiter, M. Watsbn, M. Profitt, M. Wotherspoon, S. Davis passed. First Aid—"Waikari: Eighteen students attended the lectures, the following passed: Misses E. C. Newman, J. M. Reader, J. E. Harvey, Messrs H. J. Devonshire, A. Woodhall, W. Atkinson. ~ ~. Rangiora—Thirty-three students attended. Mesdames W. E. A. F. Miles, Misses I. Graham, F. Whitley, M. Hamilton, C. O'Connor passed. Oxford—Eighteen students attended: Misses M. McConnell, M. Profitt, M. P. Baxter, li. Rossiter, Messrs S. A. Johnson, _J. N. Lewis, C. Bassett, R. Meyer, E.. MoGrath, A. W. Paton passed. ■ Kaianoi-*Twenty-two students attended. Mesdames A. G. Moreland, L. B. Brown, M Gillett, G. Mcintosh-, R. .-tiiU, C. E .Taylor, V. B. Papprill, M. McKinley, L. Tregerthen, M. Treg-erthen, H. Hill passed. _____

Prediction that the majority of surgical operations in future will he performed while the patient is conscious was made before a recent medical convention in America. By "blocking the nerve group that controls the part of the body to he operated upon through the agency of a local anaesthetic, it was said that pain would be eliminated without the necessity of putting the patient to sleep. Considerable research work in nerve blocking has already been done, and certain major operations have already been performed.