CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 96

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Miss Vincent to Mr Blake.

93

St Marylebone Infirmary,

Rackham Street,

Ladbroke "rove Road, W.

8th July 1891

&

Dear Sir,

I am sorry to say I have been greatly surprised and

disappointed, by an unsatisfactory report of Miss Browne, one of

the Nurses sent from this School to Hong Kong last September;

which I received from Miss Eastmond, the Head Sister at the

The

Civil Hospital Hong Kong, by last mail; I fear Miss Browne has

been very imprudent by her own confession, as she was talking

with one of the Junior Ward Masters, in her room when she was on

night duty, and he ought to have been also at his work, in another

Block.

I can only say that I always found her most steady, and

reliable in her conduct here, both with the Medical Staff and the

patients or I should not have thought of recommending her for

any post. Although she is without doubt in fault, I, cannot help

feeling that she has been harshly judred; Miss Fastmond speaks

of her dismissal as imminent, and she had been suspended from

duty.

The evidence of patients, Miss Eastmond tells me had been

taken