The Hospital Aid Department of B. W. A. on The regent ie an, rea they compl of There ure "is the ioo, and there fe mo ly at the prevent tine can feel a little breath '20. many of them do want, to be on'hard for it all.
One aspect of this work-a-day was shown at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon of the Hospital Aid Department, Social Service Board, of the B.W.A. It will be recalled that this department goes quietly about its work every Tuesday of th year except for two months of the hot weather. Bandages, nurses', aprons, knitted wash clothes, pneumonia jackets and numerous other useful things for hospitals are turned out with a great rapidity, which one is inclined to believe exemplifies how a "cheerful heart worketh more quickly" and parcels are made up for sending away to various mission hospitals. The Hospital Aid Department has never been known to turn down a call for assistance and in the ast there have been large numbers Of doctors and nurses in "British mission hospitals throughout China who have had reason to bless the cheerful lady workers plying their endeavours at B.W.A.
'When the mission' hoz over the country were in large measure deprived of their foreign supervisors through evacuation ad-and when it Beenie increasing-_ ly dificult to get the parcels of supplies to their destinations, these began to accumulate at a great rate Jand some of the ladies of the department felt that the stimulus to their, work had been temporarily removed.
By that time, however, other calls had begun to be made upon their activities in this line. Chief among, these was the local branch of the British'Red Cross, the work of which will be outlined in detail in the near} future on this page, where Hospital
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