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Separately.
4.
The bill, however, proposes to carry the
admission of nurses somewhat further than the Act. Under
section 5(2) provision is made for the admission to the
register of persons trained outside the Colony. This will
include not only British possessions but foreign countries.
Situate as the Colony is, on the borders of China, with
hospitals in Shanghai and other places in China equipped with every modern appliance and served by highly efficient
medical men, it becomes desirable that these centres and the
Colony should mutually recognize one another. With this end
in view it is proposed to admit to the register nurses trained outside the Colony. The necessary safeguards are
in the bill, viz. that the training and examination are not
lower than that required by the bill and that applicants
under this section may, before admission to the register is
granted, have to pass an examination to the satisfaction of
the Board. The chairman of the board is the Director of
Medical and Sanitary Services of the Colony and the standard
of training and examination is to be kept up to that of the
General Nursing Council for England and Wales.
5.
To ensure reciprocal treatment by the General
Council for England and Wales for all persons on the register
and to avoid any question as to this in future, I am submitt-
ing the bill and regulations, so that, if no objection be
seen, it may be brought to the notice of the General Nursing
Councils for England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, in
order that their views upon the subject may be obtained,
before the bill is introduced into the Legislative Council of
the Colony. For this purpose I enclose 3 extra copies of the
bill and regulations.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
Юс
Governor, &c.