RED CROSS TRAINING FOR WOMEN.
LTO THE EDITOR OF TIM " SPECTATOL"]
SIE,—In answer to a question raised in your issue on Novem- ber 2nd as to practical work for those engaged in Red Cross work, may I tell of that in the 12th Durham Women's Volun- tary Aid Detachment, whose headquarters are in Sunderland? The members are allowed through the kindness of the Managing Sister of the Royal Infirmary to attend in two's twice a week at the out-patients' department. They work under the nurses, washing wounds, bandaging, or doing any- thing that the nurse may ask them to do. It is an enormous asset in the training, accustoming amateurs to the sight of real wounds and helping them to realize quickly how best to deal with the case, and how to give as little pain as possible to the patient, a factor of which one is apt to lose sight when one deals solely with fictitious wounds in a whole and healthy scout, as is the case on field days or at the ambulance classes.
Assistant Commandant 12th Durham W.Y.A.IL
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