Scottish Central Council Branch minutes of council meetings

Production date
1917

Description
Minutes of meetings from 3 January 1917 until 27 December 1917. The volume contains the minutes of Council, Finance Committee, Executive Committee, Transport Committee, Springburn and Woodside Hospital Committee, Scottish National Red Cross Hospital Committee, Central Store Committee, Stores and Despatch Committee, Headquarters Clothing Committee, Joint Consultative Committee, Interim Standing Voluntary Aid Detachment Committee.





Matters discussed included: subscriptions; accounts; requisitions; appointments at Springburn and Woodside Hospitals; admissions to and discharges from Springburn and Woodside Hospitals; treatment of discharged disabled soldiers; insurances; sphagnum depot; admissions and dicharges from the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital; 'penny-a-week' fund; Voluntary Aid Detachment hostel; VAD uniform; National Egg Collection; funeral expenses of a VAD member who died on duty; grants for hospital equipment; posting of VAD members; upkeep of motor launches; auxiliary hospitals; supply of comforts to naval sick and wounded; Red Cross Week; VAD membership and the National Service Scheme; hospital rations; treatment of paralysed soldiers; offers of auxiliary hospital accommodation; need for applications for service for VAD members in London; annual VAD church parade; funeral expenses of patients at Ralston Hospital; transport of wounded; posting of nurse probationers to Scotland; VAD nursing and general service members required for service in England and abroad; Lady Visitors to military and first line Red Cross hospitals; premium subscription tickets; motor ambulances; death of Mr George Gidley; posting of St Andrew's Ambulance Association Corps members; inspection of the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital; salary of VAD members; advertisement in the Glasgow Herald; training VAD members in special subjects; VAD War Service Bars; misbehaviour of patients at Ralston; railway vouchers for VAD members; purchase of stores; sale of patients' work at the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital; Mobile Unit at Rouen; manual curative workshops; lectures on Red Cross work.
Collection Type
Archives
Level of Current Record
file
Catalogue Number
RCB/2/38/36/5

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