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I would point out that the total receipts are given as $9,119. That is the highest sum which could have been received. It has not been calculated whether a lesser sum may have been actually received.
Q. In connection with that part of the answer to my third question at the last meeting of this Council which sets forth the percentages of cases treated at the Maternity and Victoria Hos- pitals, will the Government state the actual numbers of cases dealt with at each of such Hospitals during each of the years 1908 to 1913 inclusive?
A. The actual number of cases treated in Maternity and Victoria Hospitals during the years 1908 to 1913 inclusive was as follows:
Maternity. Victoria. Total.
1908
82
234
316
1909
122
219
341
1910
107
344
451
1911
135
309
444
1912
144
234
378
1913
205
224
429
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When was the nursing of plague-cases transferred from the Kennedy Town Hospital to the Government Civil Hospital: How many plague-cases were treated at the Government Civil Hospital during the years 1912 and 1913 respectively? How many of such cases have been treated there during each month since the beginning of the present year? Are such plague-cases treated in an isolation ward or in the general ward?
A. From the year 1896 cases of plague were treated in the Civil Hospital, but they were definitely transferred to the Civil Hospital and the Tung Wa Hos- pital in 1909 when the Hospital Hulk Hygeia was sold.
The number of cases of plague treated in the Civil Hospital during the years 1896 to 1908 inclusive was as follows:-
1896
34 cases.
1897
4
22
1898
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1899
23
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1900
17
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1901
16
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1902
7
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1903
78
1904
1905
1906
23
35
1907
4 19
1908
22
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In 1912 the number of cases of plague treated at the Government Civil Hospital was 37, and in 1913 the number was 7.
The number of such cases treated there during each month of the present year is as follows:-January 2, February 2, March 8, April 16, and May 22. It very seldom happened that a sister who had charge of a plague patient did duty in the Maternity Hospital.
Arrangements, however, have recently been made for plague cases to be treated in a separate ward, the sister in charge of which does not work in the Maternity Hospital.
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Q. What is the
enlargement of Hos- pital," which is referred to in foot-note (15) on p. 59 of the White Book relating to the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the year 1914, which, according to the statement in that foot-note, necessitated the ap- pointment of two additional Proba- tioners? Are there in fact now only two probationers on the Government Nursing Staff out of seven who were provided for in the Estimates for 1914?
referred to is the addition to the Materni- A. The enlargement of the Hospital ty Hospital of a third class ward con- taining six beds, and the conversion of No increase in the staff of sisters or pro- the operating theatre into a private ward.
bationers was asked for as a consequence of those extensions. It was an error to state that the two probationers were required for these additions.
There are only two probationers on the nursing staff at present.
Q. Were any, and, if so, how many, Sisters on the Staff of the Government Civil Hospital taken ill during the course of last summer, and between what dates were they absent from their duties? Did not such absence from duty place extra work on the shoulders of the Sisters remaining on duty?
A. There was no sick leave during the months of April, May and October last year, but during the months of June, July, August and September five mem- bers of the nursing staff of the Govern- ment Civil Hospital were on the sick list for a total period of 83 days. They were absent from their duties between the following dates:-
27th June to the 17th July. 22nd July to the 15th August.
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9th August to the 13th August. 19th August to the 21st September. 1st September to the 3rd September. Three of these sisters were granted ordinary leave and were absent from their duties in addition to the above periods between the following dates:-
18th July to the 29th August. 16th August to the 13th September. 22nd September to the 9th November. In consequence of the above sick leave and ordinary leave, a certain amount of extra work had to be performed by those sisters who were not sick, as is the case in every hospital. The hours of duty were as always, eight.
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(.) They will be on agreement for three years in the first instance on the usual terms.
(i) The nurse referred to commenced her work 011 the 15th May in the Maternity Hospital. She received her training in the Dundee Royal Infirmary and passed the requisite examinations, No other nurses have been engaged locally.
of the answer to the last question, 11, HON. MR. POLLOCK-SIR, arising out when was the application made to the Secretary of State?
THE COLONIAL To fill temporary vacancies an addi- the 20th May. tional European qualified Sister engaged on the 24th of July and was employed until the 15th of November. There were also four probationers of some standing on duty throughout the year 1913, and two extra during the last 3 months of the current year.
Q.
In connection with the intention of His Excellency the Governor (express- at the last meeting of this Council) to recommend to the Secretary of State for the Colonies an increase of three Sisters as a temporary measure pending further investigation as to the disposition of the Staff," will the Government state:--
(7.) Are such Sisters to be engaged
from England or locally? (ii) For how long are they to be
engaged?
to
(i.) When will the services of the one Nurse, who was stated by His Excellency, at the last Meeting of this Council, to have been already engaged as one of such three Sisters, be available
the
Government ? What examinations has she passed and what training has she had? Has any further nurse been
connection engaged, in
with such increase, since the last meeting of this Council? If so, what examinations has she pass- ed and what training has she had? Has the Secretary of State for the Colonies sanctioned such increase ?
now
A. (2) Application has been made to the Secretary of State for three sisters
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to be engaged in England.
SECRETARY
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A Motion Deferred
HON. MR. POLLOCK-Sir, before pro- ceeding with the motion which stands in my name, I should like to consider the answers which have been given at this meeting of Council, and I therefore pro- not to proceed with the motion to-day at pose, with your Excellency's permission, all events.
HIS EXCELLENCY-Very well.
Supplementary Appropriation
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved Ordinance to authorize the appropriation the first reading of a Bill entitled, "An
and seventeen thousand seven hundred of a supplementary sum of six hundred
defray the charges of the year 1913." and eighty-three dollars and one cent., to
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and the Bill was read a first time.
The sum voted is to be expended as specified below:---
Treasury
Royal Observatory Miscellaneous Services
ments
Botanical and Forestry De-
partment
$ 2,077.92 664.49 206,310.79
Police and Prison Depart-
45,179.09
4,553.88
10.967.68
Public Works, Recurrent Post Office
164,243.24
Charitable Services
Total
Military Expenditure-Vol-
unters
183.244.51
541.41
$617,783.01
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