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"private nursing,
the fees charged for such nursing to be
"devoted towards the cost of defraying the expenses of
"placing the services of such nurses at the disposal of the
"public" In addition to obtaining Nurses from home it was
"proposed that "an Institute for Training Nurses in the
"Colony should be established, so that such probationers
"when their training is completed may be able to take the
"places of the Nurses from home whose services right ultimately
"be entirely dispensed with or whose number might
"be reduced". It was apparently considered that the expenditure
involved by the initiation of the private nursing
scheme and by the establishment of the Training Institute
could be provided from the Jubilee Funds. This however
proved not to be the case, these funds being exhausted in
carrying out the other works that had been started with
them of which one was the Hospital for Women and Children
on the high level of Barker Road which affords accommodation
for 8 women in private and 24 in public wards and for 8
children, as well as for two Nursing Sisters and a Resident
Surgeon.
3.
The Government had however acted
on the recommendation of the Jubilee Committee by engaging,
without