RED CROSS SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2245, 3 September 1914, Page 2

RED CROSS SOCIETY

WOMEN'S WORK IN THE FIELD. _ Since 1908 the British Red Cross Society, formed to preveait a repetition of the Boer muddle, has been a flourishing, overgrowing organisation, officially recognised by the War Office. The British Red Grose Society is defined as an organisation of voluntary aid for sick and wounded in the event of war in the Home, territory, By Juno 30, 1912, the society had raised and registered at tho War Offico 1311 • dotachments. with a total personnel of 40,372, and these numbers have grown since then., A country system has been adopted, because,the Territorial force has been organised on a country basis., One of the Red Cross pamphlets states; "This scheme has been devised with the object of giving to those. members of the civil population, who, from motives of patriotism and sympathy for tho sick and Wounded, are desirous of offering their services' for tlio performance of these Various duties, ail opportunity of allowing themselves and their effort's to. be. organised and Coot dinatod .efficiently, so that the sick and wounded may derive the fullest possible benefit." ... : . Some of tho needs which can be sup-, plied by the-Red Cross. Society are-set forth as follow:— . . j ;,-., ' 1. Clearing''hospitals;', that .is. mo-' bilo units to receive the sick arid lvounded from the field ambulances, and to transfer them by various methods, to the stationary hospitals, which may become established on the lines of Communication, and to the ambulance trains. . ' ' 2.. Stationary hospitals, established tornporarily along the lines of communication. '.'••. 3. Ambulance trains, permanent, temporary and improvised. 4. Other formations, such as (a) entraining stations, where tho sick and wounded. are loaded on ambulance trains; (b) rest stations, where the 6ick and wounded are halted on their way from the front, for the purpose of, it may be, resting for the night, or merely for the issue of meals ur light refreshments, or where dressings may be changed or urgent cases attended to. 5. I'rivate hospitals. 6. Convalescent homes. So the duties connected with the work cover a wide'range.. They include such diverse tasks as the preparation of carts for patients, and improvisation of stretchers, the conversion of various buildings into hospitals the formation of rest stations along the lines of evacuation, ahd the' collection and distribution of material required for the wounded. The latter duty is the one on which it is proposed that Australian women shall concentrate their chief efforts at preserit. The women's detachments consist of a commandant, a quartermaster, a.superintendent (who should bo a-trained nurse)',' and t\vel\ty' women (with firstaid certificates), four of whom should be qualified' to act as cooks, making a total of 23. Ail candidates for wouien'e voluntary aid detachments, except the cooks, must hold a first-aid and a home nursing certificate, or undertake to produce such certificates within six months of the date of enrolment, otherwise they ate liable to be removed from the detachment. 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