III
The Board of Governors:
Considering it important that the Red Cross should
afford protection to emigrants, both as a humanitarian duty and as a mission of
hygiene and education, as well as a means of strengthening the Red Cross itself;
Approves the first steps taken by the Secretariat in
this direction and recommends the institution of a permanent Emigration
Division in the League Secretariat.
This Division will collaborate with the International
Labour Office and, (both by the intermediary of this Office and directly), with
all independent, national or international organizations for the protection of
Emigrants; it will advocate that the Public Health
Nurse should not only supervise the
health of the emigrant before, during and after emigration, but that she should also
direct and guide the emigrant and his family from the moment they decide to
emigrate, in order to avoid any exploitation of emigrants and to facilitate
their adaptation in the new country of their adoption; the division will also
recommend that the Public Health Nurse’s training should be such as to fit her to carry out
these duties.
The Division will strive to prevent the emigration of
children without parents or guardians, and will notify the national Red Cross
Societies of the advantages accruing from bringing the Red Cross idea home to
rural populations through the protection of emigrants, which will result in
extending the activities of the Red Cross, increasing its resources and the
number of its members, and disseminating the principles of hygiene and civic
duty in the most remote villages and among the most humble families”.
“IX
The Board of Governors expresses its satisfaction at
the coming opening of the Home for the League International
Nursing Students in London as the
result of the generous initiative taken by Dr. Masarykova.
The Board of Governors authorizes the formation of a
Supervising Committee which shall include a representative, residing in London,
of each of the Societies which has subscribed to this project in addition to
the Director General of the League and the Chief of the Nursing Division. This Committee will itself fix
the dates of its meetings. The Board of Governors authorizes the Director
General to engage
1. A Directress of studies at a maximum salary of £420 per annum;
2. A matron at a salary of £100 per annum in addition to board
and lodging;
3. A half-time stenographer;
4. A domestic staff of seven”.
“XXII
The Board of Governors hereby appoints the
under-mentioned members to serve on the Executive Committee as from December 31st,
1925:
- M.
ATHANASAKI (Greek Red Cross).
- M.
CONILL (Cuban Red Cross).
- Colonel
DRAUDT (German Red Cross).
- M.
KAWAI (Japanese Red Cross).
- Mlle MASARYKOVA (Czechoslovak Red Cross).
- M.
VAN RIEMSDIJK (Netherlands Red Cross)”.
“XXXII
The Board, after examining the report of the
Director-General with regard to the Nursing Home and Centre in London:
(1)
approves the action of the Chairman and the Director-General in leasing the
house in London and in making the necessary arrangement for providing for the
necessary alterations and furnishings, at a total cost of approximately £5,500
from the funds thus far contributed;
(2)
instructs the Director-General to establish as a capital fund the balance of
the contributions thus far received, after the necessary payments for initial
expenses are made and to add to this fund all later contributions, the interest
from the fund to be used to meet the annual administrative charges;
(3)
authorizes the Director-General to examine the possibility of obtaining
additional contributions to the capital fund subscribed in order to complete the
amount necessary to give an annual income sufficient to cover the
administrative costs;
(4)
decides that the Administrative Committee to be designated by the Board be
authorized to administer the fund for the Nurses’ Home and Centre, subject to control by the Board of
Governors, and in agreement with the Director-General and the
Treasurer-General;
(5)
approves the budget for the Nurses’ Home and Centre and authorizes the employment of the
personnel therein provided for, in accordance with the resolution proposed by
the First Sub-Committee”.