else: recognition of
THE
ONGKONG
WEEKLY PRESS AND
"The Hon. J
Secretary,
JOHN C. THOMSON, M.D.
Hon. Secretar
me for Cl
Hor
THE COMMITTEE'S
OCEEDINGS:
Bre
been the
uty involved ing
has been en-
on the personal enthusiasm of omoters. Fourteen Chinese the present time engaged in various stages of the curriculum, and is a steady improvement in the prelimin
ining of the students.
have thus placed before you a brief resume of the constitution and present position of the College to show that the training of Chinese Western medicine and surgery, is practicable, that Chinese are forthcoming able and will- Sing to be thus trained..
During recent years there has been a grow. ing feeling in the colony that in the interests of the general community the Chinese part of the population can no longer be permitted to ignore the existence of the Western sanitary science, or to treat their sick entirely after
into com
propose
eration:
of which
Tere fourteen
rejected and the remainder referred to committee for examination
ination and report, choice, we believe, lies between the proposed hospital for women with training institute for nurses, the College of Medicine. and the road round the island. Two of the other proposals that remain under con sideration, may be taken as an addition to the principal memorial they are, an oil paint- ing of Her Majesty to be placed in the City Hall and the completion of the Queen's statue. The remaining proposal is that of the erection of a women's and children's hospital in connec tion with the Civil Hospital, which is a varia- tion of the scheme for a women's hospital and nursing institute and the two will no doubt be considered in combination.
I
Colonial the Gover
urging nurses locally
The papers Eastmond
tion: conce
une
depends on the
medi
being guaranteed. out above, shows tha colony consider that be provided. With bri ng out nurses under a ment, Miss Eastmond
a great boon to the colony nursing, and would
help
Gold
Department, in case of an of course that department had the
to the Sisters services. She's however,
that this scheme you
considerable outlay and would supporting.
As to the question of tr Miss Eastmond states f to work on can be obtain
Chinese methods and a Chinese. trained in
It was decided by the meeting that on Western medicine is now established as an in- Sunday, 20th June, the date. fixed for the tegral part of the Tangwa Hospital. The day of thanksgiving, the Committee should beginning thus made can only be extended to meet in the Council Chamber, before the the mass of the population when larger numbers morning service, and proceed in a body to St. of such qualified doctors can be trained and sent John's Cathedral Church; that the Hon. forth to minister to the steadily increasing Secretary should communicate with the other native population, and to dissipate the ignoranceligious bodies in the colony, inviting them which has thus far prevailed among the Chinese also to make arrangements for holding a thanks in regard to all matters medical and sanitary.
giving service in their respective churches; The members of the Court and the gentle June, should be made public holidays; that on that Tuesday and Wednesday, 22nd and 23rd men through whose self-sacrificing and entirely Tuesday, the 22nd, arrangements should be gratuitous efforts the work of the College has made for the presentation of the Address to the thus far been carried on feel that the time is Queen in the forenoon at Government House, ripo for the public to take up and carry for- in the afternoon for a review of the military and award to a larger success than has yet been naval forces at the Happy Valley, and in the
possible a movement that has the public good us as its ultimate object. If a suitable building evening for a display of fireworks at convenient were provided, more students could be taken in Wednesday, the 23rd, a gymkhana and athletic spots to be carefully selected; and that on and a more finished training could be given sports should be held at Happy Valley in the them, and if a resident Professor or Principal afternoon, a programme to be drawn up to at Tu were brought from England to superintend tract all classes of the community. If it is
and guide the work, a unity and solidity would found practicable, and agreeable to the wishese matter at once result, which would justify the recog of the Chinese, a dragon-boat festival is to be proz nition of the license by the Government, and moted, and the Government are to be requested the establishment of the students, as they com. to allow Chinese theatres to remain open day plete their curricula, among the Chinese com-
and night on the two holidays. amunity of Hongkong, instead of their being lost to the colony, as has hitherto been the case.
These are the objects which the Court have before them in suggesting that the Jubilee celebration should take the form of establishing the College on a sound basis. They estimate that a sum of $40,000 to $50,000 would be re quired to purchase a suitable site and erect building with the necessary accommodation, and that a fund yielding an annual income of to 86,000 would be necessary to pay the salary of a resident tutor, small honoraria to other lecturers, and working expenses.
THE SUPPLY OF NURSES IN
HONGKONG. Į
We have had forwarded to us from the Colonial Secretary's Office a series of official "Papers on the subject of Nurses and the Training of Nurses." The papers are pre faced by the following memorandum by thể Colonial Secretary:
Your Excellency,-Two Circular despatches have been received from the Secretary of State
train sufficiently for priya working in the Civil Hospital not be suficient to enable the
the Sisters, though
of à Sister, and is of op
ing of Burasian gir
and that "if we com here or at Sha
the Belilios School, giving of Element is in favour of ench that Dr. Ayres and Dr.
impossible to arrange for sisters are on lea;
to the
is of opinion more than
perienc
of natives, Miss
g boys and amal
the Colonial Surgeon in
In forwarding the Report of M October points out
staff 18 80 much oconu to perform the work addition to dischar
am directed by the Court to very respect-regarding the providing of trained nurses for and that the other Sisters
the Colonies, dated the 26th and 27th June respectively.
i
direct your attention to the fact that Her ajesty the Queen has ever shown a very deep interest in objects similar to those for promotion of which the College exists, as by her promotion of district nursing throughout Great Britain and the great of Queen's Nurses in Ireland, and otion of H.R.H. the Prince of mgolf at the head of a ly augment the income ~main feature of the Liondon. - Rumours are Canada and elsewhere time will be expended in ition of the sick poor; being the one most in own wishes of Her Majesty the Scheme is entirely
The despatch dated the 26th June transmits the proceedings and recommendations of Dr. Gage Brown and other medical gentlemen, who, at the request of the Secretary of State, consi- dered the question of providing trained nurses in Crown Colonies, and requests that you will be good enough to report to the Secretary of State the views of your Government on the sug gestions of the Conference with regard particular circumstances of Hongkong.
feels
refore, that
ittee, 18
the recom
The despatch dated the 27th June the prospectus of the Colonial Nursing olation for providi trained priva
blonies, and re
ent ou should
arage it if the war
istsan Hongkong:
despatches were
that he had can
time, so that they have no
There can be no are much wan kuo
two
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