§ Miss JEWSONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether, in view of the large number of accidents occurring at the British Empire Exhibition, he will state how many trained nurses are employed at the Red Cross station and how many V.A.D.s or other semi-trained women; what their remuneration is, respectively; and who is responsible for engaging and for paying them?
§ Mr. LUNNI am informed by the British Empire Exhibit ion authorities that at the main ambulance station, to which any cases of more than a trivial nature arc taken by motor ambulance, there are two trained nurses and a visiting matron, and from two to four V.A.D.s according to the time of day. Other partially trained women are employed at subsidiary first-aid stations. The remuneration is as follows:
The remainder of the female staff are voluntary workers whose out-of-pocket expenses only are borne by the exhibition. The trained staff are supplied and paid by the Willesden Hospital, and the partially trained staff by the British Red Cross Society and the Society of St. John of Jerusalem for each alternate month, the three institutions recovering the amounts in question from the exhibition authorities.
- Visiting matron, three guineas a week.
- Trained nurses, four guineas a week each.