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that quitable nurses.

cat

be obtained.

Al St Mary Abbotts In fir- mary we tried the experiment of phaving Army Medical Staff Corps

Kained Male Nurses to attend to

the male venereal cases and found that the old system, whereby female Jurves attended there caves, prefe-

rable.

If this suggestion of mine

is carried out I calencate that there

will be a

- saving to the

to the Departement of forty eight dollars a mouth under the prese. I systent

e.g.

we have

1 Senior Wardmaster @ $90 a month. and 12 for rations

$102

1 Junior Wardmaster @ $ 44 a month

or all

and

12 for rations 856

expenditure of $158 a mouth

for these two officers.

In lie of these I re-

Convineand!

2. English Hospital trained Listers at $40 a month rising to

$60

A

mouth

by yearly

incrcimento

of ten dollare ; they also receive

to a mouth for rations, therefore in 1894 the

expenditure for these two sisters would be $110 a month. However as the Wardmaster

will have to be on duty all

awd wA

may

I

day be called up at mig.

let

would suggest that he receive as increase of $10 a moull to his –

the so

present salary, this would lessen - saving to this extent, that it ___ : would be thirty eight dollars a mouth instead of forty-eight.

certain from pre-

atv

vious experience that with a little difficulty

fact there need be no

in the Sisters having charge of the Lower Hospital.

(5 %. J. M. Atkinson,

2th December, 1893,

Superintendent.