Enclosure No.1.
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In the Matter of the Salaries of the Nursing
Sisters, Medical Department, Hong
Kong,
and
In the Matter of the Efficiency of the
Nursing Staff, Medical Department,
Hong Kong.
To His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.
The 2nd day of June, 1937.
The Petition of the Matrons and European Sisters of the Nursing Staff of the Government of Hong Kong whose names are set out at the foot of this petition
1.
Showeth as follows:
Your Petitioners feel that there are grounds for
serious concern due to the fact that on the expiration of their first three year contract sisters are resigning and thereby the efficiency of the service as a whole is impaired. In 1934 eleven sisters were engaged (excluding those who have since married and resigned), of these eleven sisters, one has not been asked to re-engage, nine are leaving or have already left and by November 1937, one sister, who has decided to
remain, will be left.
2. An important part of the duties of the Nursing Staff is that of training the locally engaged nurses for which a knowledge of local conditions and some years of local
experience is required.
3. The resignations are due to the following causes:-
(1) The salary paid to Nursing Sisters in Hong Kong is lower than that which can be obtained in Government
Service elsewhere.
(2) A general feeling that a woman considering a