First aid to the injured and management of the sick : an ambulance handbook and elementary manual of nursing for volunteer bearers and others / by E.J. Lawless.

Date:
1894
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Credit: First aid to the injured and management of the sick : an ambulance handbook and elementary manual of nursing for volunteer bearers and others / by E.J. Lawless. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    In towns, so large a proportion of the male population has been through the course, that there should be no lack of recruits to swell the ranks of Volunteer Infantry Brigade Bearer Companies; and, I think, were the Committee of the St. John Ambulance Association approached on the subject, certificated pupils of the Association would be encouraged to volunteer for Brigade Bearer Company service. With a few notable exceptions, the Brigade Bearer Company scheme has fallen through. Yet, of my own knowledge, there are many certificated St. John pupils who, either from lack of time or from disinclination, will not enroll as ordinary volunteers, but who would be quite willing to serve as ambulance soldiers—as Surgeon- Colonel Evatt has very aptly termed Medical Staff Corps orderlies. I am sure my experience is not a solitary one, and that in our county towns there would be no difficulty in enrolling the sixty or sixty-five men with some knowledge of First Aid requisite to form the County or Brigade Bearer Companies our Volunteer Brigades are so much in need of. To the Chairman and Members of the Executive Com- mittee of the St. John Ambulance Association I venture to suggest, that in the direction I have indicated lies a new sphere of usefulness. The Committee can do much to extend and perfect a knowledge of First Aid and of Sick Management and Transport amongst able-bodied young men, by a sympathetic approval of recruiting for our