The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-21
A RED CROSS
LEGION FORMED
Society to Train Members What
to Do in Case of an
Emergency.

A branch of the Grand Legion of the
lulu as a part of the regular Red Cross
i Society and a number of young men
and women have expressed a willing
ness to become members. The legion
has as its object the training of per-
sons to a knowledge of how to render
i first aid to the injured. The idea is
to have persons ready to act in the
| absence of medical men should somc-
one be taken suddenly i'll on the street,
| faint in a crowd, be injured in any of
| the many kinds of accidents that con-
tinually happen, in fact be ready for
emergencies.
There are ten million accidents a
year in the United States, causing
more than sixty thousand Deaths
more than were ever killed in a year.
of American wars. OF the deaths from
accidents it has been estimated that
There are comparatively few accidents
in Honolulu, but yet scarcely a day
passes when the prompt services of
some trained person at the right time
are not required somewhere. 1t is to
have a number of these trained per-
sons ION the spot that the legion will
work Mrs. Ellen A. Weaver, of the
Lunalilo Home, IS interesting herself
particularly in the movement in con-
nectfon with the Red Cross society.
Some good work is now going on I'M
der the auspices of the Red Cross
members in taking up first aid work
among the children of the public
schools. At the Kaiulani school, partic-
ularly, the children are showing de-
cided interest and are giving practical
demonstrations that they are learning
what to do and appreciate the instruc-
tons. Recently, in an extemporized
pond fixed up for the occasion, one, of
the boys was rescued from drowning,
being hauled out in an apparently
(simuIated9 drowned condition. The
other children worked over his body,
emptied the water out of him, resorted
to artificial respiration and saved his
life'' On another occasion a lad fell
out of tree -four feet) and lay groan-
ing on the grass with a broken leg. |
Quickly the first aid brigade focked
around. There was nothing at hand
for splints or bandages, exactly as
there would not be any at hand in the i
case of a real accident in the forest. |
But the children had been taught that |
quickness was essential in work of
this kind. Branches of the tree were
broken off and Whitfield into splints; a |
Red Cross nurse whipped off her cot |
ton perticoat and tore it into bandage |
strips, and the broken leg was spliced. |
The branch splints and petticoat Incl |
dents We're the ideas of the children |
themselves.
The same work will be carried out |
through all the schools, while at the. |
same time the children will be taught !
the uses and necessity of sanitation,
ventilation and cleanliness. AS a great
many of the public school, children |
come from homes where they can put |
into practise the lessons taught, the I
result of this work can well be wide
spread throughout the city.
A Red Cross lecture, open to the
public, will be given in the Central
Union church parlors on the evening
of Thursday next, at eight o'clock la
which DR.. Brinckerhoff will speak on
the causes of infectious diseases. In
his lecture. DR.. Brinckerhoff will avoid
as far as possible the use of technical
terms and so far as possible simple
diagrams will be used to illustrate.
The object of the lecture is to intro
luce the course of lectures to follow
IN special diseases.