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REC REG 4 SEP 16

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Hon. Mr. H. E. l'ellock,

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QUESTIONS.

1. With reference to the statement, made in ansicer to my Questions concerning the Government Nursing Staff, at the last Meeting of the Legislative Council, to the fallone- ing effect,

"in a further telegram, dated the 8th January, Mr. Bonar La stated that the Colonial Nursing Association were unable to say when they would be in a position to recommend candidates", is it not the fact that

(1) The Colonial Nursing Association have recently sent out a Matron and a Sister to the Staff of the Peak Hospital in this Colony (a privately-owned Institution). and is it not the fact that

(2.) The owners of that Hospital have recently heard from the said Association that another Sister would be willing to come out to Hongkong to join that Hospital, if required?

(3.) Is it not also the fact that between May, 1915. and April, 1916, Nurses have been sent out by the Colonial Nursing Association, as follows:-

(i) To Government Hospitals in

British East Africa,

British Guiana,

..8 Nurses.

..J Nurse.

Ceylon,

..d Nurses.

The Federated Malay States,

1 Nurse.

Gambia,

1 Nurse.

Gibraltar,

.2 Nurses.

The Gold Coast,

1 Nurse.

Nigeria,

.7 Nurses.

Nyassaland,

Sierra Leone,

The Straits Settlements,.

(ii) To Nursing Association in

Canada,

..1 Nurse.

... Nurses.

2 Nurses.

and

1 Nurse,

Ceylon,

1 Nurse.

The Federated Malay States,

2 Nurses.

Mauritius,

1 Nurse.

South Africa,

1 Nurse.

The Straits Settlements,.

2 Nurses.

Western Australia,

1 Nurec.

Bangkok.

1 Nurse.

Costa Rica,....

I Nurse.

Lisbon,

1 Nurse.

Shanghai the Victoria Nursing Home), 4 Nurses?

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