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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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C.O. 885

RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Enclosure in No. 7.

The COLONIAL NURSING ASSOCIATION for providing TRAINED PRIVATE NURSES in the CROWN COLONIES and small ENGLISH COMMUNITIES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

President.

LORD LOCK.

Vice-Presidents.

The VISCOUNTESS KNUTSFORD.

GENERAL ROBINSON.

SIR HENRY NORMAN.

SIR HUBERT JERNINGHAM.

Committee of Management.

LADY MUSGrave.

MRS. CHARLES ROBINSON. MRS. CHARLES HOBHOUSE. Mas. F. T. PIGGOTT.

MISS ROSALIND PAGET.

Bankers.

MESSES. GOSLING & SHARP.

Hon. Treasurer.

Hon. Secretary.

MRS. F. T. PIGGOTT.

THE COLONIAL NURSING ASSOCIATION.

The above Association has been formed with a view to meeting the great need for skilled private nursing experienced in many of the Crown Colonies, and in some British communities in foreign parts. This need has been strongly represented by medical officers abroad, who in many places attribute the high per-centage of deaths to the impossibility of obtaining trained nurses.

Individual and isolated efforts have been made to remedy this state of things, but in most cases without permanent success.

In many places such hospitals as exist are inadequate, unsuitable, or for various reasons not available, while skilled private nursing cannot be obtained, principally for the following reasons:—

1. The shifting character of some of the communities themselves, and their consequent inability to absolutely guarantee the cost of maintenance of the nurse whilst in the Colony, and her passage out and home, and also to meet the exceptional expenses which often arise, such as those entailed by necessary but unexpected change of nurses, owing to failure of health, &c. It cannot be expected that the best class of nurse will leave her own country to go abroad without some definite guarantee securing her position and salary.

2. The difficulty of a distant Colony or community securing from England, without any central organisation in England, qualified nurses, suited to its particular

needs.

The object which the Colonial Nursing Association has in view is to meet these difficulties:-

(a.) By raising a fund from subscriptions and donations at home.

(b.) By providing qualified nurses through the home organisation, which is in connexion

with nursing associations and interests in England.

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(c) By guaranteeing from its funds to those nurses sent abroad their salary and

passage money to and from the Colony.

(d.) By assisting financially those Colonies and communities which, though greatly in need of a nurse, can show that they are unable themselves to bear the full expenses of her maintenance and travelling expenses from and back to England.

(e.) By assisting to meet, as far as the fuuds of the association will permit, exceptional expenses, such as those entailed by the death or illness of a nurse before her full term of engagement has expired.

It should be understood that the Home Association is not intended to supersede the efforts of the Colonies and communities themselves to provide for all expenses incident to the supply of nurses, but to supplement them in case of real need.

Therefore any Colony or community abroad applying to the Colonial Nursing Asso- ciation for a trained private nurse will be expected to organise at once a representative local committee, who will endeavour to raise such a fund as may together with the nurse's fees provide for her maintenance during her term of engagement, and for her travelling expenses out from England and home.

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By the word "maintenance is meant suitable board and lodging, and a yearly salary of 60l. (sixty pounds) sterling.

No nurse will be engaged for less than two, or more than three, years.

Each nurse engaged undertakes to refund to the Colonial Nursing Association her passage money out should she for reasons unapproved by the local committee break her engagement, or should the local committee find it necessary to terminate her engagement owing to serious misconduct on her part; and she will be required to find two persons who will guarantee such repayment.

The local committees in the Colonies or communities abroad will in all cases determine and receive the fees for nursing, and will also make the necessary arrangements connected with the nurse's reception and work, and undertake her entire charge during the term of her service abroad. They will send home an annual report to the Secretary of the Colonial Nursing Association, giving a statement of the receipts and expenditure and a general account of the nurse's work and efficiency.

Accounts will in the case of each nurse be balanced and settled as between the local committees and the Colonial Nursing Association on the termination of her engagement in the Colony.

Should there then remain a balance to the credit of the local committee, they will expend it as they may think best in advancing local nursing organisation and interests.

The Colonial Nursing Association will arrange for the nurse's travelling expenses out, taking her passage, &c., on as favourable terms as may be obtainable.

In the event of any dispute or disagreement arising between the Colonial Nursing Association and a local committee, such dispute or disagreement shall be referred to the President of the Colonial Nursing Association, whose decision shall be final.

Nurse's Agreement.

AGREEMENT made this day of ASSOCIATION of the one part and part.

1. The undersigned

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is engaged by the Colonial Nursing Association upon the terms and conditions mentioned on the second page of this paper.

2. The undersigned

agrees to work as private nurse in the Colony of wherever the local committee may require her services for from the date of her arrival in the Colony, and to abide by the said terms and conditions and to obey the rules of the local committee in the Colony to which she is sent.

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Nurse.

years

Hon. Secretary,

C.N.A.