FIRST DAY ACCIDENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20958, 10 November 1939, Page 7

FIRST DAY ACCIDENTS

EXHIBITION OPENING ST. JOHN AMBULANCE WORK (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Thursday The St. John Ambulance Brigade has its headquarters on the southern side of the main gates, where there are facilities and staff for giving a complete first-aid service. Minor troubles, such as fainting and cut fingers are treated by members of the brigade stationed throughout the buildings, and more serious injuries at the first-aid station. Even if the injury or illness is so serious that the patient has to be sent to hospital, he or she can usually be prepared for the journey without medical aid being called in. It is intended that 24 men and 18 vyomen be on duty nearly all the time the exhibition is open. So that they will not find their duties unnecessarily monotonous they will take turns in the various courts. Each member will spend only three days or three nights consecutively in one court. Fifty cases, two of them sufficiently serious for the patients to be sent to hospital, were treated by the St. John Ambulance at the Exhibition on Y\ ednesday, the opening day. A man fractured a collarbone in a fall, and another received cuts on three fingers of his right hand when a 40-gallon drum fell on it.