HELP FOR WOMAN Stronsay, Orkneys. At n a.m. on ist December, 1964, a local doctor telephoned the honorary secretary to say that an expectant mother on the island of Eday needed immediate medical attention. It was 2\ hours past low water with a smooth sea and gentle south-westerly breeze. At 11.30 the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman put to sea with the district nurse on board. At 12.15 p.m. the lifeboat left Eday with the patient who was landed at Kirkwall and taken to hospital, where she gave birth to a daughter. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.20..