Sir Arthur Stanley, as ,ehairman , of :the Joint , Canna of
the Red Cross Society, has written a preface to that body's second annual report which is of very: deepinterest and- signifi- cance. Last year Sir Napier Burnett put before the, Ministry of Health a- comprehensive scheme of health preservation. Ore this scheme was founded a very remarkable experiment carded out in several -counties in conjunction- with the Federa- tion of Women's Institutes-:— "Arrangements were made for -the giving of health lectures to women in rural, areas, and a syllabus-was:drawn up which extended to seven lectures dealing with-such subjects as general physiology, the digestive system, the akin, hygiene of the home and the village, personal health of the family. The scheme-was carried out in Surrey, Hampshire, Norfolk, Huntingdon, Stafford, Dorset, Lincoln, Oxford and Essex. This-form of Red Cross activity has been so muck appreciated that requests for the work to be carried on. during the autumn -and-winter of -1922-23 have been received by the Joint Council from over twenty additional counties."
That is the policy of "in pace itt in bello" which we have always hoped to see adopted by the Red Cross and the Order of St..
John. Disease and suffering never cease, and. even though we regard the Red Cross's functions as .being purely for war,.
we must remember that helping, to allay.the miseries . of peace is the best training for- a filet -line station' or a- base hospital;
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