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It may be convenient to enumerate the present
Nursing Staff.
There are 6 vacancies for Sisters and 3 Sisters
are on long leave to England and Canada. This leaves 5 Sisters
in the Colony for duty.
2 Temporary Sisters and
2 Temporary European Maternity urges have been
engaged;
5 Temporary Japanese Staff Nurses and
1 Temporary Chinese Turse (trained for one year
in England), ere employed;
3 Probationers one shown under the Maternity
Hospital as a Nurse
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and
6 Chinese Dressers are on the Staff.
3 Japanese Staff Nurses (provided for in
Estimates for next year) are expected towards the end of the current month while 4 appoint-
-ments an Sisters have been offered to ladies
in India and else here.
The Staff has been increased by the addition
of Japanese Staff Nurses. On the other hand I have made the
rule that Sisters must in future be granted their long leeve
et the expiration of each 4 years of service and that in addition the Nursing Staff are to be granted deys off in each month and short local leave not exceeding 1 month annually as may be considered desirable.
These concessions absorb a considerable number
of the Nursing Staff.
I propose on my return from the short leave which I am about to take to revier the whole question of the numbers of the Nursing Staff at the Government Hospitals.