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without assistance from the funds raised by that Committee,
two additional Nurses for three years from June, 1898.
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These were accommodated in a house rented for the purpose
and employed till June, 1901, on private nursing. The
annual expenditure calculated on the first 2 years' work-
ing was $4,540 and the annual receipts from fees $1,423;
the cost to the Government was thus over $3,000 per annum.
4.
Meanwhile the establishment of a
Training Institute by the erection out of Colonial Revenue
of a building as quarters for the nursing probationers
immediately to the East of the Medical Staff Quarters and
in close proximity to the Civil Hospital was pressed on the
Government by Sir Paul Chater in a letter dated the 16th May,
1900; an argument used in support of this proposal
was the fact that Government would be relieved of an annual
expenditure of $720 by the provision of the quarters for
the Resident Surgeon in the Women and Children's Hospital
erected from Jubilee funds in Barker Road. In Major-General
Gascoigne's Despatch No. 311 dated the 29th June, 1900,
approval of the Secretary of State was asked for the in-
clusion in the Estimates for 1901 of $24,000 for a Nursing
Institute which was to provide quarters for the Matron of the