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the Government Civil Hospital, 2 Sisters engaged in private nursing and 2 Probationers, the remaining 2 Probationers on the establishment being provided with quarters at the Barker Road Hospital. Provisional approval to this was given in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 280 dated the 15th August, 1900.
5. Before however the building was commenced the question of an Institute for the training of Probationers again became mixed up with that of private nursing. At a General Meeting of residents held on the 9th March, 1901, it was unanimously resolved to establish a Nursing Institution in Hongkong independently of the Government for the purpose of providing trained Private Nurses who would be available for the community. As the cost of the two Private Nurses then supported by Government would be saved by this arrangement the newly formed Hong-kong Nursing Institution asked for a Government grant to their funds. It was originally intended that this grant should go towards the erection of a house for the Private Nurses but a temporary arrangement made for housing them in a private Hospital belonging to a firm of Doctors at the Peak having given satisfaction to the Institution they requested
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