CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT
Government Civil Hospital is to get out five or six more ladies from tange in the office of
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lations of Dr. AYRES,
ve hop that staff and by, Dr. ATKINSO and Miss Eastmond refer reg by affl more particularly to the establishment of a a the training school, but it seems to us that this and en at scheme, excellent as it is in itself, should be made subsidiary to the provision of a trained nursing staff whose services would be avail- able at once.
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y should obtain all its nurses Our experience, he from different schools, and unpleasant-
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elves, and the matron staff have trouble, but ted from the same source in all cases there is an esprit de corps among them that it wanting in the case mentioned." The objects of the Colonial Nursing Asso- ciation are admirable, but this colony can do better for itself by working on independent lines: One of the objects of the Association is to assist financially those colonies and communities which, though greatly in need nurse, can show that they are unable themselves to bear the full expenses of her maintenance and travelling expenses from and back to England. A wealthy colony like Hongkong could not take advantage of eleemosynary assistance of that descrip- tion. All that the Association could do for us, therefore, would be to make the selec- tion of the sisters to be sent out, and in that respect the present arrange ment could not be improved upon. What is required, then, is to increase the number of sisters and to establish a class for training nurses locally.
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PUBLICITY FOR THE DIAMOND JUBILEE COMMITTEES
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Although it is improbable that the proposed road round the island will be selected as the scheme to which the public subscription for a memorial of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee should be devoted it is to be hoped the project will be taken up by the Government and carried into effect with as little delay as possible. The present agitation in its favour has shown how strong is the feeling in favour of the execution of the work, and very little consideration is Whatever form of memorial of the Queen's necessary to satisfy any one of its utility Diamond Jubilee may be
ided upon by and, in fact, necessity. The road proposed the Committee it is to be there will by General BLACK to connect Wanchai Gap be a good many dissentients, public with Wongneichong Gap should also be being so widely divided as it is between the carried out, and in this connection we would proposed road round the island once more urge the construction of the various schemes for increased hospital much needed road from Plantation Road modation, nursing, and medical education. tramway station to Magazine Gap. For One of the best neans of lessening dissension, the last ten years roadmaking has been however, and securing such concord as may, practically at a standstill in the colony, be possible, would, we think, be to throw and during that time the population. the meetings of the Committee open, to the both on the lower and the upper levels press, in order that the public might be in a has been steadily increasing, and the need position to judge for themselves of the for further outlets has been growing invalidity of the arguments adduced for and the same proportion. When Mr. PRICE was against the respective schemes. It must be in charge of the Public Works Department remembered that the Committee has not been It is hardly necessary to insist upon the need a very healthy activity was displayed in elected by the community and that it is not of increased nursing facilities, notwithstand- this direction and road after road was made a fully representative one. Under these cir ing the opinion expressed by a correspondent without any fuss and apparently at little cumstances is it to be expected that if the in yesterday's issue that Hongkong is as expense, the public hardly realising that Committee carries on its deliberations in well rsed any place in the world. the work was in progress until they found private and concludes by making the bald His argument was altogether vitiated by the new roads available for traffic. We announcement that this, that, or the other attempt to make the list of hospitals may mention in particular Kennedy Road, scheme has been adopted, the decision will look imposing by including those apper the road from Wanchai to Aberdeen, the be readily and cheerfully acquiesced in b taining to the Army and Navy, which are road from Mount Gough to Aberdeen, the the opponents of the rejected schemes not available for the general community. various roads at the Peak, Magazine Gap The various schemes may be
rthermore, apart from the question of Road, and the splendid Bowen Road. It be on their trial, and the trial ought eased hospital accommodation, we want is unnecessary to descant upon the advant- to be conducted in open court. With the increased facilities for home nursing. How ages of each and all of these roads, as they guarantee of fair play which this publicity great is the need that exists is shown by are fully appreciated and made use of would afford the community would be the case mentioned by the Colonial Secre- by the public. Under the administration the more ready to waive any objection tary in his memorandum of two ladies of the late Mr. BROWN and that of Mr. that might be taken to the constitution of having to share between them the services of COOPER the activities of the department the court and to accept the decision as
untrained nurse. Even if the memorial have been mainly confined to carrying out authoritative. In the early the sixtieth-year of Her Majesty's reign the Praya Reclamation (which was de- discussion, while the ground was being should take some other form, this question signed before Mr. Price left), water and cleared, there might be some reasons of of providing skilled European nurses for drainage works, and other sanitary convenience for holding ... the the community should not be allowed improvements. We have no desire to the Committee in private, but now to drop.
For bachelors when sick the underrate the importance of these works, that the impossible or inad
inadmissible hospital is the proper place, but with and, as everything cannot be done at once schemes have been weeded out" and the the great increase in family life that with the means at the department's dis- discussion has become focussed on a few
in the colony of late posal, there may be something to be said in definite schemes, each hich and that is still going on, the de- extenuation of the inaction that has presentially supported, it is desirable for home nursing has so largely out,vailed in the opening up of the island by the proceedings should ipped the supply that the need for more construction of roads. We believe, how
› properly trained for the profession, ever, we are correct in saying that even if become noute. At Shanghai, where there had not been pressure of work in othe conditions prevail, stops have been directions Mr. COOPER would probably have eet the requirement by bringing displayed no great enthusiasm in extending
THE ursing sisters whose services the roads of the colony, that being a class of lable the community; and work which, if we may be excused the to be behind the north-colloquialism, seems to be rather out of his
an important matter. line of country: There has been more talk som Eurasian nurses locally about, the making of the few hundred more
would be several yards of roadway required to give a more cor
direct connection between Victoria Gap and it Mount Kellett han there was about all
many miles of roads made by Mr. CE, always excepting the discussion
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