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The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1915. ST, JOHN'S AMBULANCE.

How very many valuable lives have been saved by a little knowledge of first aid in emergency it is difficult to estimate, but we at least do know that much fine work has been done since the St. John's Ambulance Association took steps to systematically disseminate a knowledge of those measures which in accidents and emergencies may be safely employed pending the arrival of skilled medical assistance. With headquarters at St. John's Gate, London, in 1877, the infant society began its work by starting classes for instruction to both men ami women, the lecturers giving instruction on the elementary facts of human anatomy and physiology, as well as on the general principle of surgery to be applied in the treatment of fractures and dislocations, or in injuries of the soft parts of the human body. The pupils are drilled irnl trained to keep cool in emergency, to arrest haemorrhage, and to practise artificial respiration. The proper method of most easily carrying wounded or injured patients; how to administer simple and safe remedies in case of poisoning j and how best to guard any person—in case of accident or sudden illness—against injudicious handling or neglect are subjects, valuable knowledge about which the classes held under the Association's auspices endeavour to impart. It is to bo hoped that the effort now being made to form a branch of this famous Association in Stratford will be well supported, and that classes for both sexes will be formed. If this is done at the end of each set course as laid out in the Association's rules, an examination is held and those competitors who satisfy the examiner are awarded a badge or certificate of efficiency. Something over a million of these efficiency certificates have been issued by the parent Association, the work of which has been extremely popular and must undoubtedly in numberless cases, have conduced to the saving of life and the mitigation of suffering. In country districts especially, the opportunity to obtain instruction in first aid is a privilege which ought not to be overlooked. At the meeting in Stratford to-morrow evening, Mr .J. McAllister, chairman of the District Hospital Board, will preside, and medical men have promised I heir hearty support.

POLISH LIBERTY. The restoration of Polish liberty at the close of the present war must be complete ii it is to be effectual, says a writer in the Auckland Star. The Poles never have rested ami never will rest content under foreign domination. ll' persistence in maintaining their nationality, and heroism in asserting it with arms against overwhelming numbers, can give them a right to their own land, with its laws, language and religion, they have well won it back. In 1830 and 1883 they rose in open revolt, as late as 1905 their patriotic movement was choked with blood. It never was by cowardice that they lost their sovereignty. It was taken from them by a conspiracy of greater Powers. True, their fall was rendered possible by the violent factions ofj their feudal nobility, by the absence of organisation, and above all by the subjection in which the nobles held the peasantry and all other classes. Hut it would be inhuman as well as unjust to urge that their former political diseases prove them for ever incapable of self-government. In their hour of danger they made a supreme effort to heal their own disorders. They abolished all the worst abuses at one stroke and converted! their kingdom into an fieriditary monarchy, with a new Constitution. Andj this Constitution did not fail through' any fault of theirs, but through the treachery of Prussia, which first encouraged them and then turned upon them.

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 98, 28 April 1915, Page 4

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The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1915. ST, JOHN'S AMBULANCE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 98, 28 April 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1915. ST, JOHN'S AMBULANCE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 98, 28 April 1915, Page 4

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