CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4] — Page 468

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Government House.

March, 1901.

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Merch

1901.

I have the honour to transmit for your conside-

ration the enclosed copy of correspondence which has taken 'place respecting the establishment of a Nursing Association in Hong-Kong for the purpose of providing trained private Nurses who shall be available for the Community.

2. On the 9th.of last January, the Acting Prin- cipal Civil Medical Officer reported that Sisters Robins and Millington would neither re-engage on the private nursing staff at the expiry of their 3 years engagement in June, and that it would therefore be necessary, either to provide new nurses, or to inform the medical practitioners that no engagements could be made after that date.

3. The situation, so created, was considered by

a General Meeting of the Residents of this Colony on the 9th. instant, when it was unanimously resolved to establish a Nursing Association in Hong-Kong and to obtain two private Nurses from home through the Colonial Nursing Association.

4. The expense of keeping two Nurses being thus saved to the Government, I have the honour to request authority The Right Honourable

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,}

M.P.

800.

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80.

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