VALUABLE SERVICE IN MANY SPHERES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 227, 22 June 1944, Page 6

VALUABLE SERVICE IN MANY SPHERES

Y.W.C.A. Nursing Division

The fifteenth annual report of the Y.W.C.A. Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Association shows a year of much activity and useful service. Members have undertaken many public duties, attending the clearing station. Public Hospital (one member working 2172 hours at Wellington Hospital during 1943), Auzac Day parades, staffing basketball courts, selling health stamps, packing parcels for prisoners of war, canvassing for blood donors, assisting seven street days and helping at the weekend services’ tea at the Y.W.C.A. throughout the year. First aid treatments totalled 92, while 37 private cases received home nursing attention. Twenty-eight members are quahfiedvoluntary aids, three serving overseas, two in the civil nursing reserve and two full time at the Public Hospital. The Y.W.C.A. camp fqr schoolgirls held at Solway during the Christmas and New Year vacation was staffed by two members of the division. Misses B. McKenzie and J. Sowell, who earned the appreciation of the camp officials for the efficient way they carried out their duties. More than 120 cases were given attention, four of the patients requiring the services of a doctor. The Reeves trophy, for squad work, was won by Miss A. Woodward. Mrs. F. Moore and Miss I. Reach. The Barltrop trophy, individual improvising, was won by Mrs. J. Wilson. The efficiency trophies. donated by the previous superintendent. Mrs. E. Wilson, were awarded to Misses B. McKenzie and J. Sewell, both these members having been particularly helpful and active in division affairs. The Chinese "Relief Fund of the Y.W.C.A. benefited by £5. part of the proceeds of a white elephant stall organized by members. The report pays tribute to the many lecturers who willingly imparted expert knowledge on various subjects, and to the divisional surgeon. Dr. J. J. Crawshnw.