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3rd. year.

(c) Elementary Medicine in relation to

Nursing.

Lectures on special subjects, malarial

fevers, plague, enteric fever etc., There will also be regular

and systematic teaching of the Nursing Sisters.

Certificates will be granted after an

examination at the end of the three years course.

12.

I ask your approval to the adoption of

the terms given above for future probationers and to my put-

ting on those terms any probationers now under training who

are willing to accept them and who may be recommended to me

by the Principal Civil Medical Officer. I propose to limit the

establishment of probationers to five, the number at present

in training.

13.

I also ask for a reconsideration of the

instruction contained in paragraph 2 of your Despatch No. 270,

dated the 9th. September, 1904, as regards Miss A. R. Allaway,

recently appointed for nursing duties in the Victoria Hospital

for Women and Children, being styled "Nurse' instead of

"Nursing Sister * the title by which the persons hitherto

sent from England for similar Auties have been designated.

Apart from the fact that this instruction

conflicts with the proposals now put forward the Principal

Civil Medical Officer considers that difference in the titles

given to the Nurses sent from England will cause dissatisfac-

tion among them. He points out that the reason why the title

of "Nursing Sister" has hitherto been used is that the persons

so designated have charge of wards with Chinese Nurses and

14.

European