No. 203
Hongkong.
Closure
I March, 1903
aclosure 2.
3rd April, 1903.
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Government House,
Hongkong, 17th. April, 1903.
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sir,
I have the honour to forward a letter from
the Principal Civil Medical Officer together with a statement
showing the new appointments and increases in salaries, amount-
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ing to $582, which Dr. Atkinson recommends should be placed
on the Estimates for 1904.
2.
The only item not referred to by Dr.
Atkinson in his letter is that of $216 on account of Probationer
Midwives at the Maternity Hospital. Native women who act as
Midwives have, as a rule, a lamentable ignorance of the
practice of midwifery and frequently cases are brought to
Hospital'in extremis' and showing the dreadful injuries which
the midwives have unwittingly inflicted.
3.
On Dr. Atkinson's recommendation therefore
I have approved of an attempt being made to train, in a ཀུ
practical manner, Chinese women as Midwives. It is proposed
that three women should be trained each year and if at the
end of a 12 months' course they have acquired a competent
knowledge of the subject, Certificates as trained Midwives
will be granted to them.
4.
As it would be most undesirable to allow
these women while probationers to live in Chinese houses on account
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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