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And Gone with them are the old- fashioned methods of waxing
carriage.
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Personalities of Old Hongkong GRIN AND BEAR IT
Hon. Frederick Stewart, LL. D.
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By T. PAUL GREGORY
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kong Government during the latter part of the last century was the Honourable Frederick Stewart, LL.D. He was
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who was justly esteemed by all sections of the community on nc- count of his integrity and devotion to the manifold duties of the Civil Service. His long career of nearly 28 years, moreover, was a most noteworthy one, although unfortunately cut short whilst he was yet in the prime of life; but still it can be said that he died as he no doubt wished-"in harness".
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Frederick Stewart was born in no doubt to his remarkable com- Your waxing troubles, like the horse Scotland about the year 1838. mand of the Cantonese vernacu- Like many of those who served lar. Few civil servants, either Gone here during the first quarter of past or present, can be stated to have possessed such & fluent the existence of Hongkong as a knowledge of the colloquini idiom Crown Colony, not much
- fund of information which known of his antecedents. He Dr. Stewart steadily employsi and was, nevertheless, a man of ex- in gaining the confidence
esteem of the Chinese com- cellent education; for he was a
munity, so that he was con- graduate of the University of sidered by them in JA most Aberdeen, where he obtained his affectionate light—a sort of “big M.A. degree in 1859 after a brother"-an officint who was al- scholastic career of unusual bril- ways ready to help them in any Hance,
class way that he could. Moreover, obtaining first
and possessing a seat on the Legislu- honours in intellectual
tive Council, he was thereby in moral subjects.
a position to accomplish a great
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1938
FRANCE ASKS: WHO
AND WHY?
The accusation of the Parls newspaper, Le Temps, that there powers in Europe to-day working deliberately
against
are
For a young man in his early deal of useful work for the com- munity which so much admired twenties, the East seemed to
and respected him. afford the greatest opportuni-
After the retirement of Mr. ties, and accordingly be chose
W. H. Marsh, the Colonial Secre- the colonial service as the most tury, in the year 1887, Dr. Ste- fitting vehicle for a successful wart was appointed as his suc- career. His first appointment cessor, he having served in that ол several previous was to Hongkong, where he ar- capacity
up- rived in December 1861, as In- occasions as a temporary spector of Schools, and inciden- pointee. tally, too, Headmaster of the old
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Cage, 1818 Kažimí Poctors Pendiente, Tao,
By Lichty
"Have you anything to add to that 'Ah Nuts' statement, Senator?"
Dr. ELIZABETH SLOAN CHESSER tells you.
THE TRUTH ABOUT NURSES
THE
a strong case.
nurses have a case, I know of one nine who went to She stayed Short-dance with her father.
permission. She hours, better pay, better out late without
ought to have asked for lufe leave treatment. To these demands and she deserved punishunent. But She was dis- everyone who knows the condi- not what she received.
from the hospital. More tion of this important branch of missed
than three years of training lost! medicine would give support,
To my mind, this problem which nurses are trying to solve is primart
the profession ly economie.
number of the attract sufficient
We of woman?
know right type that 11 does not. We know that the
No one denies the necessity of dis- cipline in the wards, but this discip- line should be relaxed in off-duty hours. As Does
it is. the beautifully furnished nurses' homes are some- gilded enges by tines regarded as
Government Central School, He embarked on the duties of appcasernent is alarming; but it which has since become Queen's his high ollice with the greatest situation is serious. There are not the girls for whom they are intended.
a surprise. scarcely comes as For some time it has been sug- gested that ambitious nations have made the most of confu sion
and fear in neighbouring sintes and have deliberately chosen their times for various eous when agitation has been at its height. German states- men have admitted this strategy. But Le Temps is very blunt about its declaration that
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College. In these positions he ardour and in the two years in until 1876, which he held the post proved served with credit when a favourable opportunity himself most capable, and would afforded further advancement, have indubitably won for him- This came in his nomination as Coroner of the Colony of Hong- kong, and later as Police Magis-
trate.
About this time, too, his splen- did work of nearly 15 years in the cause of education in the Colony received recognition from his alma mater-the University the raids by mysterious aircraft of Aberdeen-which conferred over the frontier are for the upon him the honorary degree of purpose of preventing the opera- [LL.D.
tion of the Non-Intervention
and removal of agreement foreign
the volunteers from Spanish civil war zone, which is a natural outcome. That is a grave charge. Yet what else
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It was not until 1888 that his series of steady promotions ap- pronched anything like an ap- pointment in the actual circle of
named to succeed Mr. James The Hon. Frederick Stewart.
One nurse said to me, "We are not allowed to enter our sitting-room un- less we are in uniform or wearing outdoor clothes and hats,"
enough trained nurses in the country. Advertise for a typist or a secret lary and you will get hundreds of of these night be reples. Half nurses in an epidemic of influenza What many die for lack of nurses, would happen in war me?
Now we cannot get enough nurses able to because the trained nurse is under- friends beforehand. They want de- prid. Let me tell you about the pay. finite working hours each day. Some
Nurses hate also the system of they work spread-over duty. It overtime they receive time off later perhaps a half-day, but they are not make arrangements with
Four Years' Training
Nurses after four years' training of them, too, want to live out. Why staff nurses in hospital wards-re vol? given £70 a year. Just about what advertise- you pay your cook. ment for a male cook for a nurses' home-ironic is it not?--gives the wages as £110 per annum all found.
as that of a doctor, and It ought to Sisters receive from £80 to £120 include midwifery, training in health
NURSE'S traloing lasts four years, nearly as long
o year, the pay of a butler in the West vialting and fever treatment. End of London.
£250 For Sisters WHAT then, in regard
When the training is complete and the nurses are State registered-11 took 50 years to achieve this for the to profession--they should receive re- on a level with other of trained
women...
of
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pay, is the organised Guild muncration of Nurses asking? It asks that a professions staff nurse should receive £200 a teachers, for instance.
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Nursing need not be a year, and live out if she wishes. she lived in hospital, the expenses to "acrifice" any more than medicine The domination and Interference of medical superinten- denta, especially in fever hospitals, is unnecessary,
be deducted from her pay. Perfect or teaching,
is the explanation for these in-the administration, when he was cursions Into France? What
Russell as Registrar General. It self eventually a governorship possible excuse can there be for is recorded that his nomination in some one of Her Majesty'ely far. bombers out of Spain to attack
was received with unanimous colonial possessions. He served A sister, says the Guild, should be an innocent French village un-approval; for Dr.
Stewart in as the Officer Administering the paid £250 with the right to live out in rooms or a Bat. If she has meals less it is to cause friction, dis- addition to his record of long and Government of the Colony on trust and tension? If it were a conscientious service, seemed to one or two occasions within his in hospital she pays for them at the
short period of office during the canteen or mess. mistake there would be no have possessed the difficult knack absence of the then Governor,
The "grievances" of sisters are not The Chi- Sir William Des Voeux. Indeed, entirely selfish. They maintain that attempt to disguise the planes of pleasing every one.
whilst serving in this under the present system they have which take part. But the factese residents of the Colony were it was
to him, capacity that he contracted the so much clerical work to do, so much in particular devoted is the mystery raiders have no This was dus in great measure malady which was so suddenly stocktaking, and balancing, and writ- insignia. They may be Spanish Insurgent planes or they may come from some neighbour state or
their Italian collaborators, to whose advantage it would be why did they not disguise planes
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There are pension schemes, Wo know, but these are too costly. The pensions are not interchangeable and the nurses are sometimes afraid to take better more congenial posts In case they lose their pensions.
Petty Nagging
be
The profession should be allowed
that that the hires should governed by the senior members of to organise itself, and I mean by
their own profession.
Another serious problem is the competition. State-registered nurses have to meet from the half-qualified and half-trained nurses.
Undercutting Fees
IN private nursing a serious situation arises because the untrained here often go out at smaller fees than the trained nurses. This undercutting should be stopped..
They used to speak of "stickt doc- to cut short his career of useful-ing that the patients suffer from lack
sisters them- lers" in Scotland. Well, "stickit" ness. It seems that he presided of attention and the
not the time to train nurses who have falled in their State exuminations, or served only a short. the officers of the Brazilian man- at a dinner given in honour of selves have
their probationers.
term in hospital or nursing home, o-war-the Almirante Barros
A nurse, under present rates of having just a smattering of medl- cine, are being sent to municipal and pay, cannot provide for her indepen- other hospitals at fees higher than to stir up trouble on the Franco- as Insurgent or Italian bombers? -which was then on a courtesy Spanish border, and thereby Conjecture does not get one any. visit to the Colony, and during dence in old age. I know many, too those paid to members of the trained
the festivities, be contracted a old and too I to work, whose lives stuff. prevent the working of the Non-where in a case of this sort, but slight cold. Dr. Stewart seem- are tragle and filled with fear.
ed to regard it, however, as of no | Intervention agreement and the the strange facts invite it.
Not only Le Temps, but the consequence; for he apparently settlement of the Spanish pro-
soon he was blem by Spaniards. The Italian French press of all shades of neglected it, and
confined to his bed with an at- press, of course, jumps to the opinion, demands that firm ne-tack of pneumonia. After conclusion that the raiders are tion be taken to put a stop to short illness, he died at his re- Spanish Government aircraft; these frontier violations. The Bidence in Arbuthnot Road, on September 20, 1889, and was) contending that so desperate is preparations which are being buried in the colonial cemetery the plight of the Government made for the reception of any in Happy Valley, forces that only by the ag-future visitors may very well gravating of the great powers to discourage similar adventures; His name is still largely re-
And there is a danger when the such a point that they will but if it ever does chance that membered in Hongkong, being one of the intervene in Spain or attack French gunners have the for-perpetuated in
the Colony. Suppose she becomes a probulion position is so serious that public thoroughfares of General Franco's allies, can the tune to force down one of these This is Stewart Road in Wan-e, what happens? Her superiors of bodies are shutting down wards be-- overy grade take the attitude that cause of shortage of nursen. Men Loyalista hope to win. But that mystery planes the
conse-chal, one of the new streets re- her opinions are immature, her views and women are kept on the waiting does not scom sound. In the quences may prove more than sultant from the Praya East Re- not worth considering. She is nonen llet of hospitals until it la too late
Someone is clamation Project, which was solly, and yet she has, by the very to save them. first place, if the Loyalists had embarrassing...
The nation must have nurses, so decisions.
It seems fair, decent, and sensible any Intention of creating an in-gambling for big stakes to take long, advocated by Sir Paul nature of her work, to make serious
Chater, and brought to a suc-
An one ward sister said to a nurse to reorganise the profession. Let us cident calculated to involve such risks as must be involved cessful completion some years know it is not your business to yield to just demands for better con-
ditions, freedom, and security. think, but to do." France against the Insurgents in these lawless enterprises.
ago.
Lastly, the long hours nurses must woric are a disgrace. Think of duty ONE reason why so many for 13 hours with a break for two bolt hours and Umes for girls do not wish to train on and a nurses is the lack of freedom, the meals. A 54-hours week, some- petty nagging and harsh dicipilne to times longer. Whom are we to blame? which they are subjected. The mo- The hospitals for their apathy or the dern girl has freedom and expresses general public for their failure to her opinion, which in most cases is realise the danger to themselves?
valuable.