No 466
ΝΟ
시
Sir,
22881
13 DEC 1976
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG.
10th November, 1926.
closure
- 7 FEB 1927
Gor Fugg
panz
I have the honour to state that this
Government has had under consideration for some years proposals for improving the conditions under which pensions
are awarded to Nursing Sisters, as it has been felt that the
present rules do not provide adequate pensions. I enclose,
for convenience of reference, an extract from the report of the Finance Committee held on the 30th September, 1926,
which was adopted by the Legislative Council on the 15th
October, and forwarded to you in my despatch No.440 of 25th
October, 1926.
2.
The smallness of Nursing Sisters' pensions
as compared with the pensions of other Government servants
is due in part to their relatively low rates of salary, and in part to their shorter average period of service owing to
a higher age on recruitment and an earlier age of retirement, for the training and experience required before appointment mean that Nursing Sisters often join the service at an age higher than the average at which other officers join, nor
is it desirable that they should remain in the service until
they attain the age of 55,since few women are physically fit for the work of nursing in the tropics beyond the age of 50.
3.
In Hong Kong Nursing Sisters are at present
subject to the same pension rules as are other Government
servants
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L. C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&c.