HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
38575
3RD AUGUST, 1916.
PRESENT:--
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.MG.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).
HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney- General).
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial Treasurer).
HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs).
HON. MR. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G. (Director of Public Works).
HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER (Captain Superintendent of Police).
HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G. HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.. HON. MR. E. SHELLIM.
HON. MR. D. LANDALE.
HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK. HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK. MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of Councils).
Minutes
The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed.
Papers
THE COLONIAL TREASURER, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table report of the proceedings of the Public Works Committee held on July 27th and it was adopted.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, also laid upon the table the Medical and Sanitary reports for the year 1915, the report of the Director of Education for 1915, and a diagram of the low level dam under construction at Tytam Tuk, showing the progress up to June 30th, 1916.
Finance
By command of H.E. the Governor, the Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 18 to 19, and moved that they be referred to the Fin- ance Committee.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and this was agreed to.
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THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table report of the proceedings of the Finance Committee No. 5, and moved that it be adopted.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and this was agreed to.
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Nursing Sisters in the F.M.S.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, command of H. E. the Governor, laid on the table the following correspondence regarding the supply of Nursing Sisters in the Straits Setttlements and Federated Malay States:-
Extract from a letter from the Prin- cipal Civil Medical Officer, Straits Settle- ments, to the Principal Civil Medical Officer, Hongkong, dated the 14th July,
1916:
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"I have only managed to obtain one nurse since war and we have had three in order for some long time past. We get all
through the Colonial Nursing Association except four. These we promote from amongst the probationers. Certainly two of these four are our very best nurses and especially useful on account of knowing the languages."
Extract from a letter from the Prin- cipal Medical Officer, Federated Malay States, to the Principal Civil Medical Officer, Hongkong, dated the 13th July, 1916:
"We are not getting nurses from England to fill our vacancies. We have been very hard pressed indeed lately. Help was given by the resignation of a nurse belonging to a private associa- tion who was taken on.”
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