2 PROVISION OF OXYGEN TENTS The society's annual report was received and /RED CROSS WORK approved. This report shows continued ex­ pansion both of personnel and activity. Con­ IN BRITAIN siderable progress has been made in the special training and organization of its membership in order to cooperate with the Government in preparation for defence against aerial warfare, and the regulations have been extended to in­ CONTINUED EXPANSI ON clude the enrolment o( air-raid precautions re­ serves. The clinic for rheumatism in London is The Duke of Gloucester presided at the now working to its maximum capacity, and gave 154,378 treatments during 1936. The num­ statutory meeting of the Council of the ber of calls on the London blood transfusion British Red Cross Society yesterday service amounted to 5,215, another record over morning. any previous year. Jn order to facilitate ex­ periments in the relief o( certain forms o( Before the formal business of the meet­ disease by means of oxygen tents, the society ing began, the Duke presented the provided 12 tents and placed these at the dis­ Florence Nightingale Medal to Mrs. posal o( 12 teaching hospitals in London. The tests carried out proved o( great use and Maynard Linden Carter, head of the the society's action encouraged the use of this nursing section of the League of Red Cross valuable method of treatment. One of the most important functions of the Societies. This medal is awarded in alter­ society is to instruct the public in mallers of nate years by the International Red Cross first aid, home nursing and hygiene, and the Committee to ladies of any nationality services of its health lecturers and other in­ structors are constantly in demand. The distinguished in nursing service on the re­ general activities of the society have been commendation of national Red Cross well maintained, records showing that over Societies. Mrs. Carter, following three 30,000 accident cases were dealt with during the years' service at the Ranyard Mission in year and an increasing number of hospitals avail themselves of the auxiliary services o( London, was mobilized during the War the trained members. in the Territorial Army Nursmg Service. The PRINCESS ROYAL, Commandant-in­ After the War she gave her services in Chief, made a statement on the society·s de­ Czechoslovakia. Jn 1921 Mrs. Carter tachments. She reported that over 800 women joined the League of Red Cross Societies, members had attended the Y.A.D. training camp this summer at Winchester, where where since 1927 she has conducted the various courses of instruction had been pro­ nursing section. vided, and that 944 officers and members were Another visitor from oversea was Mrs J. E. on duty in London, in cooperation with St. Good, of the South Australian Red Cross, who John Ambulance Brigade, on Coronation Day, was also presented to the Duke. Three new and dealt with 1,428 cases. The total number ' members were elected to serve on the Council of certificates and proficiency badges awarded -Lady Granville, Lady Helen Graham, and by the society for first aid in chemical warfare Lady Nunburnholme. now amounted to 29,079. His ROYAL HIGH­ SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, chairman of the execu­ NESS announced that the Red Cross ball would tive committee, announced that the following be held at Grosvenor House on November 24. had accepted the office of president of certain Others present were: - o( the society's branches, subject to the Queen's Princess Helena Victoria, Mr. A. C. A brahams. Mr. approval o( their appointment:-Mr. F. C. H . Armitage, Mrs. Benyon. Mrs. Blount, Sir Ernest Clarke, Colonel Sir William Coates, Sir Frances Grimble, Seychelles branch ; Lady Stubbs, Colchestt;r-Wcmyss. Major-General D. J. Collins, Lady Ceylon Central Council branch; Dr. G. H. Gwendoline Colvin. the Duchess of Devonshire. Mrs. Doyne. Colonel G. H. Edin~ion. Colonel C. R. Evans. Peale, Southern Rhodesia Central Council Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Basil Hall, Surgeon Vice­ branch · the Right Rev. J. L. C. Horstead, Admiral Sir Robert Hill. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ewen Bishop 'of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Central ?vfaclcan. Lady Mar and Kellie. lv1iss Martin. Dame Bery.I Oliver. Mrs. Ridley. Major-General Oliver L. Council branch; Lady Grant of Boath, Robinson. Dame Ann Bead"imore Smith, Sir Edward Nairnshire branch. S1cwan. Colonel Sir Counauld Thomson, Mis' K. C. The DIRECTOR-GENERAL (Lieutenant-General Wait. Mrs. Rome (Matron-in-Chief), Miss Cross (Direc­ tor .. Junior. Scc(ion). Miss Conder (Assistant Director. Sir Harold Fawcus) announced that the four­ Junior Sec11on). Mrs. May (Secretary, Appeals Depan­ yearly International Red Cross Conference menil. Mr. F ..c. Davies (Secretary), and Mr. R. C. would be held in London in June, 1938. Murchison (Assistant Secretary). .