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The original text seems to be discussing the staffing and accommodation arrangements for nurses at the Victoria Hospital on Barker Road in Hong Kong. Here's the corrected version:
Nurse Peacock, after a service of only a few months out of her 3 years engagement, and the resignation and secret departure from the Colony of Nurse Ulding, after serving only 6 months out of her 3 years term.
8. It is proposed that the three new nurses should have the same qualifications, and the same privileges as to leave and pension as the sisters in the Government Civil Hospital, and that they should be provided with quarters at the Victoria Hospital on the Barker Road.
7. With regard to the Estimates for the suggested addition to the Hospital, I have now to make an alternative suggestion, which will avoid any considerable outlay, and which I trust you may think worthy of consideration.
There is at the Barker Road Hospital a large airy room at present called the office, wherein both the resident Medical Officer, and the Head Nurse have writing tables, maps, books, etc. There is also adjoining this office a smaller room, the Dispensary, which the nurses also use as a sitting room, for tea and so on when on duty. It occurs to me that this room might well be given over entirely to the Medical Officer as his office, there being ample room for his writing desk, etc., while a single-bed 1st class ward close by might be allotted to the Nurses for their office and sitting room, as it is not necessary for the nurses to do such office-work as they have to do in the same room as the Doctor. If this re-arrangement of existing accommodation were effected, it would set free the large room, which would amply suffice for sleeping accommodation for 3 nurses. A very small outlay would, by means of partitions, convert it into excellent small bedrooms. It must be remembered that it rarely, if ever, happens that all three Private Nurses are in together, and consequently it would not be necessary to provide 3 bathrooms as suggested in the estimates.
9. I believe further that the nurses from the Government Civil Hospital would welcome the change to cooler, purer air when their...
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