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General
The Superintendent of the local St. John's Ambulance
Association and the Divisional Director of the British Red Gross
Society have kindly supplied information concerning their welfare
work in the Borough:-
St. John's Ambulance Brigade
(1) Attendance at sports meetings, public gatherings and
entertainments to render first aid if required.
(2) Conveyance of patients by ambulance to supplement the County
Ambulance facilities.
(3) Maintenance of comforts depot from which supplies of medical
equipment can be issued on loan.
(4) The provision of instructors for classes in First Aid and Home
Nursing to Civil Defence volunteers, adult and youth groups.
(5) Voluntary aid in hospital wards, male and female.
(6) Provision of nursing attendants for meetings and outings of
old persons organised by the various Old People's Associations.
British Red Cross Society
(1) The arrangement of sessions for the taking of blood for the
transfusion service, and the provision of volunteer assistants
during the periods of the blood transfusion service operations.
(2) The maintenance of a medical equipment loan depot.
(3) Ambulance transport for the sick to supplement the County
Ambulance facilities.
(4) Occupational therapy for disabled ex-Service pensioners and
for Chest Clinic cases.
(5) The provision of a library service for home-bound tuberculosis
patients.
(6) Home visiting in cases of distress and the provision of urgently
required household articles or home nursing,
(7) The provision of volunteer workers to travel to and from
hospital with sick, aged, blind people or children.
(8) The supply of instructors in First Aid for Civil Defence
volunteers, adult and youth groups.
(9) The allocation of accommodation in Red Cross Homes, short or
long stay, for old people and convalescents.
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