The Wax Ofice cater very efficiently for the sick in military hospitals [but anyone with experience in nurse ing will appreciate that there are many extras necessary to produce the comforts of a modern civil hose pital. These, the local Red Cross Society, through the British Forces Recreation Centres Fund which has been so generously subscribed to in Shanghai, and through the welcome assistance from the British Red [Cross at Home, have been able to provide, provided to tits bonpleaer Vaceeh Among the ta which, have,
the Society, to give some iden of the ort of work which is being done, are the following, 400 bedcovers, four 75 stools, 10 floor mattings, 36 bedside mats, 24 cushions, 30 cupboards and wardrobes, 15 medicine jcuphonrds, 12 desks, four ice-chests, six gramophones, 20 dozen empty dispensary bottles, eight hot water bottles and covers, six aircushions, 160 pneumonia jackets, 22 operating: gowns, 12 bed jackets, 4 bed-socks, }24 masks, bandages and sandbags, fand 100 ashtrays, besides sundry other things, In addition the sitting room and bedrooms for sick officers in the 10 Kiukiang Road hospital have been Entertainment for Convalescents Since the formation of the Red 'Cross Society there has been a 1 cular. weekly issue to all patients of cigarettes, sweets, books, games, stationary, ete., and' the wards have queen brightened by continual sup-lies of flowers and plants which does not come out, of Red Cross fonds. A patients' library has be equipped in each hospital and a sys tem of daily motor drives and entertainments for convalescents has been organized and, as the latter phase of the work grows, more and more need is felt for lady' volunteers to make fuse of their motor cars for this worthy practice. It needs hardly to mentioned that the drives for con. valescent patients are among the most highly appreciated activities which the B.R.C, Society has tuted, as the patients thoroughly en. Joy this way of getting out in the As can readily be seen, with so many activities embarked upon by the local organization, the question lof financing the work is ax important one. Already the $1,800 sus jeribed locally and the £200 donated by the British Red Cross have been expended, and the work must stimulated by new funds, 'The dramatic performance, there-ore, which will be given by the Han_ kow' A.D.C, besides providing a thoroughly enjoyable entertainment for the Shanghai public will have the additional value of aiding the local British Red Cross,
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