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The
kong Government during the latter part of the last century was the Honourable Frederick Stewart, LL.D. He was a man who was justly esteemed by all sections of the community on ac- 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 wes yet in the prime of life; but still it can be said that he died as he no doubt wished-"in harness".
Frederick Stewart was born in no doubt to his remarkable com- Scotland about the year 1838, mand of the Cantonese vernacu- Like many of those who served lar. Few civil servants, either
have possessed such
Gone here during the first quarter of past or present, can be stated to
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1938
FRANCE ASKS: WHO
AND WHY?
The accusation of the Paris newspaper, Le Temps, that there in Europe to-day are powers deliberately working against
A fluent
and
com-
WEL con- Л most
the existence of Hongkong as a knowledge of the colloquial Idiom Crown Colony, not much ian fund of information which known of his antecedents. He Dr. Stewart steadily employed was, nevertheless, a man of ex- in gaining the confidence
of the Chinese esteem cellent education; for he was a
munity, so that he graduate of the University of sidered by them in Aberdeen, where he obtained his affectionate light-a sort of “big M.A. degree in 1859 after a brother"-an official who was al- scholastic career of unusual bril- ways ready to help them in any liance, obtaining first class way that he could. Moreover,
and possessing a scat on the Legisla honour's in iritellectual
tive Council, he was thereby in morni subjects.
a position to accomplish a great deal of useful work for the com- munity which so much admired and respected him.
For a young man in his early twenties, the East seemed to ufford the greatest opportuni- ties, and accordingly he chose
After the retirement of Mr. W. H. Marah, the Colonial Secre-
the colonial service as the most tary, 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 011 several previous was to Hongkong, where he ar- capacity
a temporary ap- rived in December 1861, as In- occasions as spector of Schools, and inciden- pointee. tally, too, Headmaster of the old
Central Government
er
Cops, 1929 by Thithi Posters Ezidiram, Tue,
By Lichty
"Have you anything to add to that 'Ah Nuts' statement, Senator?"
Dr. ELIZABETH SLOAN CHESSER tells you
THE TRUTH ABOUT NURSES
THE nurses have a case,
Jitnow of one nurse who went to Short-dance with her father. She stayed a strong case.
permission. She hours, better pay, better out late without
ought to have asked for late leave To these demands and she deserved punishment. But treatment. everyone who knows the condi- not what she received. She was dis- tion of this important branch of missed medicine would give support.
To my mind, this problem which nurses are trying to solve is primari
the profession ly economic. Does
number of the attract a sumclent
know right type of woman? We
We know that the that it does not.
from the hospital. More- than three years of training lost!
No one denies the necessity of dia- cipline in the words, but this discip- Jine should be relaxed in off-duty
As hours.
It is, the beautifully furnished nurses' homes are some times. regarded as gilded cages by
One nurse said to me, "We are not allowed to enter our sitting-room un- enough trained nurses in the country.
Advertise for a typist or a secre- less we are in uniform or wearing tary and you will get hundreds of outdoor clothes. and hats."
of these might be replies. Halt
Nurses hate also the system of nurses. In an epidemic of Influenza
What spread-over duty. It they work many dle for, lack of nurses.
overtime they receive Ume off later, would happen in war time?
perhaps a half-day, but they are not with make arrangements Now we cannot get enough nurses able to beenuse the trained nurse is under- friends beforehand. They want de- paid. Let me tell you about the pay. finite working hours each day. Some
School, He embarked on the duties of appeasement is alarming; but it which has since become Queen's his high office with the greatest situation is serious. There are not the girls for whom they are intended. scarcely comes as a surprise. College. In these positions he ardour and in the two years in For some time it has been sug. served with credit until 1876, which he held the post proved gested that ambitious nations when a favourable opportunity himself most capable, and would have indubitably won for him- luve made the most of confu-afforded further advancement. sion and fear in neighbouring This came in his nomination as Coroner of the Colony of Hong- states and have deliberately
kong, and later as Police Magis chosen their times for various
trate. coups when agitation has been at its height. German states- this men have admitted to strategy. But Le Temps is very blunt about its declaration that the raida by mysterious aircraft
over
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 of Aberdeen-which conferred
the frontier ure for the upon him the honorary degree of purpose of preventing the opera LL.D.
tion of the Non-Intervention
agreement and removal of foreign volunteers from
the
لله
It was not until 1883. that his
Spanish civil war zone, which is series of steady promotions ap-
a natural outcome. That is a grave charge. Yet what else
proached anything like an ap- pointment in the actual circle of
is the explanation for these in-the administration, when he was
The Hon. Frederick Stewart,
Nurses after four years' training of them, too, want to live out. Why staff nurses in hospital wards-are not? given £70 a year.
Just about what
Four Years' Training.
A NURSE'S training
laste
you pay your cook. An advertise- ment for a male cook for a nurses' home-ironic Is it not? gives the
four years, nearly us long wages as £110 per annum all found. as that of a doctor, and it ought to
Sisters receive from 280 to £120 include midwifery, training in health
a year, the pay of a butter in the West visiting and fever treatment. End of London.
£250 For Sisters
W
THAT
then, in regard
When the training is complete and State registered-it the nurse pre took 60'years to achieve this for the
to profession-they should receive re- other on a level with
of, trained women--
pay, is the organised Guild muneration of Nurses anking? It asks staff nurse should
that a professions receive £200 a teachers, for instance,
lito of Nursing need not be u year, and live out if she wishes. If
any more than medicine she lived in hospital, the expenses to "sacrifite"
The domination and or teaching. interference of medical superinter- dents, especially in fever hospitals, is unnecessary,
be deducted from her pay. Perfect ly fair.
"
to train
The profession should be allowed
nursey should to organice itself, and I mean by governed by the senior members of their own profession. tone
bc-
Another serious problem is the competition. State-registered nurses have to meet from the half-qualified
and half-trained nurses,
named to succeed Mr. James 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's
A sister, says the Guild, should be bombers out of Spain to attack was received with unanimous colonial possessions. He served
Stewart in as the Officer Administering the paid £250 with the right to live out an innocent French village un-approval; for Dr. less it is to cause friction, dis- addition to his record of long and Government of the Colony on in rooms or a flat. If she has meals
short period of office during the canteen or mess. 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 The "grievances" of sisters are not mistake there would be no have possessed the difficult knack absence of the then Governor, 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 fact nese residents of the Colony were it was
in particular devoted to him, capacity, that he contracted the so much clerical work to do, so much
They used to speak of "stickit dog- is the mystery raiders have no This was due in great measure malady which was so suddenly stocktaking, and balancing, and writ to cut short his career of useful-ing that the patients suffer from lack insignia. They may be Spanish
ness. It seems that he presided of attention and the sisters them- tors" in Scotland. Well, "stickit" nurses who have falled in their State examinations, or served only a short Insurgent planes or they may
at a dinner given in honour of Relves have not the time
term in hospital or nursing home, their Italian collaborators, the officers of the Brazilian man- their probationers.
having just a smattering of medi- come from some neighbour state or
A nurse, under present rates of cine, are being sent to municipal and to whose advantage it would be why did they not disguise planes o-war-the Almirante Barros to stir up trouble on the Franco-as Insurgent or Italian bombers? which was then on a courtesy pay, cannot provide for her indepen other hospitals at fees higher than 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, he contracted a old and too I to work, whose lives staff. 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 Tamps, but the consequence; for he apparently settlement of the Spanish pro-
soon he was confined to his bed with an ut- blem by Spaniards. The Italian French press of all shades of neglected it, and press, of course, jumps to the opinion, demands that firm ac-tack of pneumonia. After
Lastly, the long hours nurses must conclusion that the raiders are tion be taken to put a stop to short illness, he died at his re-
work are a disgrace. Think of duty and was Spanish Government aircraft; these frontier violations. The sidence in Arbuthnot Road, on
September 29, 1889,
ONE
NE reason why so many for 13 hours with a break for two giris do not wish to train ns and a halt hours and ümer for 54-hours week, some- contending that so desperate is preparations which are being buried in the colonial cemetery
nurses is the lack of freedom, the moais. A the plight of the Government made for the reception of any in Happy Valley.
petty nagging and harsh delpline to times longer. Whom are we to blame? which they are subjected. The ma- The hospitals for their apathy or the forces that only by the ag future visitors may very well
His name is still largely re-dern girl las freedom and expresses Keneral public for their failure to gravating of the great powers to discourage similar adventures;
And there is a danger when the Bucha point that they will but if it ever does chance that membered in Hongkong, being; her opinion, which in most cases ju realise the danger to themselves?
Suppose the becomes a probatlan- position is so serious that pubile intervene in Spain or attack French gumiers have the for-perpetuated in
thoroughfares of
er, what happens? Her superlurs of bodies are shutting down wards be- General Franco's allios, can the tune to force down one of these This is Stewart Road in Wan-overy grade talto the attitude that cause of shortage of nurses. Men the conse-chai, one of the new streets re- her opinions are immature, her views and women are kept on the waiting Loyalists hope to win. But that mystery planos
not seem sound. In the quences may prove more than sultant from the Praya East, Re- not worlis considering. She in nonen- list of hospitals until it in 100 late
Someone in clamation Project, which was so ity, and yet she has, by the very to save them.
The nation must have nurses, so decisions. first place, if the Loyalists had embarrassing,
it seems fair, decent, and serialble Chater, and brought to a suc-
As one ward sister mid to a nurse to reorganise the profession. Let us any Intention of creating an in-gambling for big stakes to take long advocated by Sir Paul nature of her work, to muke serious
I know: "It is not your business to yield to just demands for better can-
ditions, freedom, and security. cident calculated to involvo such risks as must be involved cessful complation some years
ago.
think, but to do," Franco against the Insurgents in these lawless enterprises.
does
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There are pension schemes, we know, but these are too costly. The pensions are not interchangeable and the nurses are sometimes afraid to take better or more congenial posts in case they lose their pensions.
valuable,
one of the the Colony.
Petty Nagging
Undercutting Fees I
TN 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.
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