THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 19, 1914.
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9. What is the "enlargement of Hospital", which is referred to in foot-note (15) on p. 59 of the White Book relating to the Estimates of Revenue and Expendi- ture for the year 1914, which, according to the statement in that foot-note, necessitated the appointment of two additional Probationers? Are there in fact now only two Probationers on the Government Nursing Staff out of seven who were provided for in the Estimates for 1914?
10. Were any, and, if so, how many Sisters on the Staff of the Government Civil Hospital taken ill during the course of last summer, and between what dates were they absent from their duties? Did not such absence from duty place extra work on the shoulders of the Sisters remaining on duty?
11. In connection with the intention of His Excellency the Governor (expressed at the last Meeting of this Council) to "recommend to the Secretary of State for the Colonies an increase of three Sisters as a temporary measure pending further investigation as to the disposition of the Staff", will the Government
state:
(i.) Are such Sisters to be engaged from England or locally?
(i.) For how long are they to be engaged?
(iii.) When will the services of the one Nurse, who was stated by His Excellency, at the last Meeting of this Council, to have been already nyayed as one of such three Sisters, be available to the Government? What examina-
tions has she passed and what training has she had? Has any further nurse been engaged, in connection with such increase, since the last Meeting of this Council? If so, what examinations has she passed and what training has she had? Has the Secretary of State for the Colonies now sanctioned such increase?
The Colonial Secretary replied.
MOTION. Mr. POLLOCK requested permission not to proceed for the present with the following motion standing in his name :-
That the Government do lay upon the table of this Council the letter, under date of
the 2nd July last, which was addressed by the Superintendent of the Govern- ment Civil Hospital to the Principal Civil Medical Officer setting forth on behalf of the Sisters reasons why they considered that their numbers should be increased by two.
His Excellency the Governor assented.
SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL.-The Colonial Secretary moved the First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to authorize the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Six hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and eighty-three Dollars and one Cent, to defray the Charges of the Year 1913.
The Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to..
Bill read a first time.
OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance for more effectually preventing the Publication of Obscene Books, Pictures, and other Articles.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill,