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the Government Civil Hospital, 2 Sisters engaged in private nursing and 2 Probationers, the remaining 2 Probationers on the establishment being provided with quarters at the Barker Road Hospital. Provisional approval to this was given in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 280 dated the 15th August, 1900.
5. Before however the building was commenced the question of an Institute for the training of Probationers again became mixed up with that of private nursing. At a General Meeting of residents held on the 9th March, 1901, it was unanimously resolved to establish a Nursing Institution in Hongkong independently of the Government for the purpose of providing trained Private Nurses who would be available for the community. As the cost of the two Private Nurses then supported by Government would be saved by this arrangement the newly formed Hong-kong Nursing Institution asked for a Government grant to their funds. It was originally intended that this grant should go towards the erection of a house for the Private Nurses but a temporary arrangement made for housing them in a private Hospital belonging to a firm of Doctors at the Peak having given satisfaction to the Institution they requested
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the Government Civil Hospital, 2 Sisters engaged in private
nursing and 2 Probationers, the remaining 2 Probationers
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on the establishment being provided with quarters at the
Barker Road Hospital. Provisional approval to this was
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given in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 280 dated the 15th.
August, 1900.
5.
Before however the building was
commenced the question of an Institute for the training of
Probationers again became mixed up with that of private
nursing. At a General Meeting of residents held on the 9th.
March, 1901, it was unanimously resolved to establish a
Nursing Institution in Hongkong independently of the
Government for the purpose of providing trained Private
Nurses who would be available for the community.As the cost
of the two Private Nurses then supported by Government
would be saved by this arrangement the newly formed Hong-
-kong Nursing Institution asked for a Government grant to
their funds. It was originally intended that this grant
should go towards the erection of a house for the Private
Nurses but a temporary arrangement made for housing them
in a private Hospital belonging to a firm of Doctors at
the Peak having given satisfaction to the Institution they
requested
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