Govr's Desp.No.277 of 30.7.14.
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S.of S. Desp. No.240 of 17.9.1433 the further despatches noted in the Govr's desp.No.363 of 14.11.14. S.of S. Desp.No.8 of 6.1.15.
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4.
In the meantime on the 23rd
April, 1914, the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, X.C. asited certain questions in the Legislative Council, which proved to be the prelude to a series of what I may call attacks upon the administration generally of the Medical Depart-
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ment; and I accordingly, as a guide to the course of
subsequent events, the Hansard reports of all proceedings in Council relating to that Department from that time up
to the present date.
5.
It will be seen from these reports that the Un-official Members of the Council were apparently satis-
fied with the appointment of three additional Sisters, which took place towards the end of 1914; but the whole question of the adequacy of the Nursing Staff was opened afresh to those members by my announcement on the 14th October, 1915, that it had been found possible to replace two Kursing Sisters at the Civil Hospital by six Probation- er Dressers.
6.
I may refer here to my despatch No.42 of
the 4th February, 1915, regarding the appointment of these dressers. Not long after this despatch was written it became known to me that no less than five Sisters proposed
to leave the service of the Government within the course of the year, and that one Sister might retire on pension early in 1916. Of the five Sisters in question three gave no reason for their resignations, and two resigned with my
permission in order to offer their services in connection
with the war, one of them writing that she had very little
work to do at the Civil Hospital, while there was so much
work at home.
7.
It became evident to me that there was
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