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their duty as Private Nurses necessitates a tour of service on the
Peak in these quarters.
10.
The 1st. Class wards are not in constant request,
and were there a sufficient supply of nurses available for patients in
their own homes, would be still less required; the proposal therefore
to sacrifice one of these wards, and thus avoid enormous outlay, until
the new scheme has been proved to be a success, appears to me to be a
sound one, and I trust will commend itself to you.
11.
I may mention here my belief that it will be
found practicable for the Governor in Council hereafter to raise the
scale of fees at present paid for Private Nurses, as if this scheme is
adopted, the subscriptions from members of the public would be done
away with
and the higher scale would therefore be willingly paid.
That at present charged for non-subscribers is quite suitable.
12.
I understand that the Government may be prepared
to accept the above scheme provided
to accept the above scheme that a guarantee is given for a certain
number of years against the Government sustaining any loss from such
a venture.
13.
With due deference I suggest that no such
guarantee ought to be required, for I would most strongly urge upon
you that the welfare of the mothers and of the children born in this
Colony is a matter of high importance and deserving of the utmost con-
sideration by the Government.
14.
No question as it seems to me arises here of
preferring one particular class in the community over another, because
the poorer Europeans in this Colony go as a matter of course into one
of the Government Hospitals, which are built and financed out of the
rates, and in which they receive every attention that skilled nursing
can bestow and everything they require.
15.
I fully realize that it would not be possible to
include the present Nursing Sisters at the Government Civil Hospital
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