Report of a Valuable Department of the B. W. A. Social Service Board We are glad to be enabled to print extracts from the report by Mrs. J. W. Dovey at the first annual meeting of the Hospital Aid Department of the B.W.A. held on February 27. These are as follows The Hospital Aid Department came first into being as the result of a letter received by Mrs.. Gull to the Social Service Board from Dr. O. C. Strange of the Hangchow Hospital asking if iti would be possible to help them in their dire need.
The inaugural meeting was held on February 21, 1922, and the following ladies were asked to serve on the Committee:—Chairman, Mrs. Dovey; Hon. Treasurer, Mrs. Ryton; Work Secretary, Mrs. Hels-by; Recording Secretary, Miss Macfarlane; and in addition Mrs jW. J. Walker, Mrs. Hanson, Mrs. Burton Sayer, the latter of whom was after all not able to serve.
Financial Help.—A nominal fee of $1 per year and an optional \fee of $1 per month was decided upon. In addition to this there were a few special contributions, rut in order whether practice hours,; and monthly grants from the Sociat are kept or not and that new wardifervice Board, ranging from $50 robes for doll families are more necessary than the recital of his-' te $100 and in future the Social Service Board has promised a re-tory. Indoor pursuits are a de-gular grant of $50 a month We clared a bore and gardening and are -grateful to the Dramatic and nature-study are the only semi-use-Needlecraft Sections for their ful activities to which their interest} liberal help. may be easily directed.
Material Help.—In_ response to Numerous specifics have been sugan appeal. through the press for gested for allaying this seasonal bandaging machines, we have te pyrexia but the only efficacious thank the Russian Consulate and remedies found thus far have been several private individuals for the somewhat drastic doses of obsolete loan of in all about 20 machines necessity for continuous industry Without these latter it would have and complete financial inability to been impossible to turn out the thcusatisfy the clothes-craving, No satis-sands of bandages that have been factory inticculation "against this made in the course of the year.
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