Food, Committee of Inquiry Into High Cost of--June, 1916. Advisory Committee on Women in Industry. March, 1916. Labor Commission to Deal with Industrial Unrest. (Ministry of Labor.) June, 1917. Munitions Central Labor Supply Committee. Munitions, Arbitration Tribunals. Munitions, Committee on the Supply and Organization of Women's Service in Canteens, Hostels, Clubs, etc. December, 1916. Naval and Military War Pensions Statutory Committee. January, 1916. Nurses, Supply of--October, 1916. Polish Victims' Relief Fund. Prevention and Relief of Distress. 1914. Professional Classes Sub-Committee. Prisoners of War Help Committee. Reconstruction Committee. (To advise the Government on the many national problems which will arise at the end of the war.) 1916. Shops: Committee of Inquiry, to Consider Conditions of Retail Trade to Secure the Enlistment of Men. (November, 1915.) Teachers' Salaries. Departmental Committee of Enquiry. June, 1917. War Charities. April, 1916. National War Savings Committee. April, 1916. COMMITTEES EXCLUSIVELY COMPOSED OF WOMEN. Committee, Report on Joint Standing Industrial Councils. 1917. Women's Wages Committee. 1917. Central Committee on Women's Employment. 1914. Drinking Among Women, Committee of Enquiry. November, 1915. There are also two women on the-- Executive Committee of National Relief Fund. Ministry of Food has two women Co-Directors-- Mrs. C.S. Peel Mrs. Pember Reeves HOSPITALS--RED CROSS--V.A.D. "Come, ye blessed of my Father; I was sick and ye visited me." --MATT., Chap. 25. "A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good Heroic womanhood." --H.W. LONGFELLOW, "To Florence Nightingale." CHAPTER III HOSPITALS--RED CROSS--V.A.D. When war broke out on August 4, 1914, probably the only women in our country who knew exactly how they could help, and would be used in the war, were our nurses in the Navy and Army nursing services. In the Army, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service had in it at that time about 280 members, matrons, sisters and staff nurses, Miss Becher, R.R.C., being Matron-in-Chief for Military Hospitals. The Q.A.I.M.N.S. had a large Reserve which was also immediately called out and these nurses were used at once, six parties being sent to France and Belgium by August 20th. The Second Branch was the Territorial Force Nursing Service, which was in 1914 eight years old. It was initiated by Miss Haldane and a draft scheme of an establishment of nurses willing to serve in general hospitals in the event of the Territorial Forces being mobilized, was submitted at a meeting held in Miss Haldane's house, Sir Alfred Keogh, Medical Director General, being present. This scheme was approved and an Advisory Council appointed at the War Office.