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Page 363
In the 2nd subparagraph of the 6th
paragraph of my Despatch No. 363 of the 7th instant forward-
ing the Estimates for the year 1905 reference is made to the
Staff of Probationers in connection with a proposed extension
to the Staff Quarters at the Civil Hospital. I have now the
honour to submit a report on and proposals with regard to that
Staff.
2.
The first proposal for the local training
of Hospital Nurses was put forward in December, 1894, by Dr.
J. A. Lowson, Acting Superintendent of the Government Civil
Hospital, on the grounds that a small establishment of Proba-
tioners would relieve the strain on the regular Nursing Sisters
in periods of specially hard work and make vacation leave
possible for these Sisters while it would furnish ultimate em-
ployment of a suitable nature to girls of European descent
trained in the Colony.
3.
The scheme was referred to the Medical
Committee appointed by Sir William Robinson in December, 1894.
This Committee reported on it on the 16th April, 1895,
as follows:-
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
"We
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