Recent interest taken in Red Cross work in China gives an excuse in referring to the Indian Red Cross Society. This society increased its membership from 12500 to 15,912 and district branches rose to 181. Two dred Red Cross committees were functioning actively and all the am-balance activities of the Society were taken ever by the St. John's Am-balance Association which will be in receipt of financial assistance from the Society direct:
. Considerable progress was made in the scheme which the Society is carrying out in collaboration with the National Institute for the Blind for the training of teachers in prevention of eye diseases Another "notable event of the year Was the production of the first Standard film. "Prevention of Blind-by the Cinema section at headters intended for purposes of ation and propaganda. The influence of the Society shows signs of extending gradually into the villages and the possibilities of health propaganda among villagers during agricultural fairs are being recognized and ized increasingly.
There is a Junior Red Or s Society with a membership of 000 boys and 14.826 girls. and al. a Maternity and Child Welfare Bureau. The work of the St. John's Ambulance Association and the St. John's Am-balance Brigade Overseas, which are branches of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, continues to be valuable:
The object of the Association is to train men, women and children in all walks of life in the art of render ing first aid and in home nursing, hygiene, sanitation and cognate subjects; while the Brigade's purpose to mobilize the personnel trained b the Association into a band of skilled. dried and uniformed workers for duty during public fairs. festivals Sports meetings and the like and on Occasions of national emergency. such as floods and earthquakes. The sociation conducted th" usual courses of training for both adults and children. at which 37.417 person: Tepresenting a diversified field. received instruction. The biennial all-India competition. which ined to stimulate interest in training, was held in Calcutta, and. 2s usual, proved a great success. At the end of the year, the Brigade consisted of 59
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