Some of our Members have worked regularly for many years in civil hospitals near their homes, and most of you will have seen them in their blue frocks with the distinctive Red Cross on the apron. Now, of course, many more of them are helping to augment the staffs, but the Ministry of Health has decided that in civil hospitals they shall be known as Nursing Auxiliaries instead of the familiar V.A.D.s. Many of these N.A/s are also working in First Aid Posts or in some localities they are accompanying District Nurses on their daily visits from house to house, treating cases,
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