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3rd August, and 8th December, 1915, issued three minutes in which he called particular attention to the general rise in prices and the consequent necessity for the very careful supervision of ex- penditure under the various heads, including expenditure on washing.
I trust that the very full and detailed information which has been given will prove of value to members of this Coun- cil. The compilation of it has given sveral very hard-worked officers a vast amount of labour. The position at the Government Hospitals now is this. Owing to circumstances wholly attribut- able to the state of war in which we un happily find ourselves we are short of our highly trained Nursing Staff. In this, as you will have learned from the correspondence with the Federated Malay States and Singapore, we are not singular. We have failed to replace those shortages and we have had recourse to the Hos- pitals of Japan and I have now after a personal investigation arranged that the Block shown as B Block at the Goy- ernment Civil Hospital shall be entirely removed from the charge of the Sisters and placed under the care of Japanese Staff Nurses and Probationers. As the ward is entirely occupied by Asiaties I am following in this organisation the example set in the Straits Settlements. and elsewhere. in not providing highly trained European Sisters for the and nursing of Asiatics, and I am sure that the Chinese members of Council will recognise that the change is reasonable.
This change with the engagement of additional assistance in the Maternity Hospital enables me to allocate these Sisters as follows:-
A Block
care
Morning, 1 sister on each floor. Afternoon, 1 sister on both floors. Night, 1 sister on both floors. Operating Theatre. 1 sister. Maternity, 1 sister in the morning, 1
sister in the afternoon. leaving two Sisters and one Probation- er for the Victoria Hospital.
This disposition makes no provision for the 2 Private Nurses which the Government is bound to supply to out- siders if called for. To provide for such Contingency I have engaged Mrs. Mac- Ewen from about 20th August for the Maternity Hospital, I have telegraphed to Japan for two more Japanese Nurses
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and I am trying to arrange for one or tw Volunteer Aid Detachment Nurses devote the whole of their time to Nursing at the Government Civil Hospital instead of their mornings only. And here would like to record my thanks to the Misses Gordon for the excellent work they have done at the Government Civil Hospital and for their unselfish sacrifice of their time in the public interest.
For whole time Volunteer Aid Detach- ment Nurses in the present emergency I am prepared to pay salaries either as Sisters if qualified or as Probationers if unqualified, and I trust I may get some applications on these terms. trusi. gentlemen, that these dispositions will be regarded as satisfactory as far as circumstances permit. There are some other minor matters to which my atten- tion has been directed in the course of interviews with the Sisters and investi- gations arising out of the many ques tions put by the honourable member. These will be sympathetically and care fully dealt with, and if their solution redounds to the greater efficiency of the Public Service I shall not forget to give the credit of suggesting improvement o the honourable member.
Revenue Officers Ordinance
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL proposed the second reading of the Bill intituled.
An Ordinance to amend the Revenue Officers' Power of Arrest Ordinance. 1913." In doing so he said:-One object of this Bill is to bring the schedule to the The principal Ordinance up to date. Military Stores, Post Office, Opium and Pharmacy Ordinances have been amended or repealed and the Tobacco Ordinance has just recently been placed on Statute Book, and the effect of the second section of this Bill will be to incorporate- these changes in the schedule to the principal Ordinance. The other object
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of the Bill is to give the Governor-in- Conneil power to amend the schedule in future in order to avoid the necessity of passing amending Ordinances when fur- ther changes occur in the Statute Book. I beg to move the second reading.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY second- ed, and the Bill was read a second time.
Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.
The Bill passed through Committee without amendment, and, on Council resuming.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL that the Bill be read a third time.
moved
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY second- ed, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.
His EXCELLENCY–Council stands adjourned sine die.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
A meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presid- ing.
ment.
Telegraph Services
CGUT=0.
this
Sanitary Department, Other Charges:
Sanitary Staff
Bath-houses, Fuel
Disinfectants
Fuel for Blacksmith's Forges
46
Launch, Steam Barges, and Lighters:--
Coal Repairs
600
1,300
56
285 2,500
Veterinary Staff
Animal Depôts and Slaughter-
houses: Light
180
Total
.$4,021
was
The Governor recommended the Coun- THE CHAIRMAN--This is due to the eil to vote a sum of thirty-two thousand i great increase in the price of coal, dollars ($32,000) in aid of the vote Mis- disinfactants, etc. The price of cellaneous Services, Telegraph Services, Sanitas Okol has gone up
from 2s. Telegrams sent and received by Govern- | Gd. per gallon last year to 3s. 3. The price of chloride of lime has also increased three times more than it
last
year. Kerosene oil is of double the price it was last year. There has also been a large increase in the cost of materials which are required for the exorbitant requirements of the steam barge of the Sanitary Department. No. 3. Light at the slaughter-houses accounts for $180, and there has been an increase here in the price of gas.
The vote was agreed to.
THE CHAIRMAN OFT could not he anticipated. The vote was agreed to.
Sanitary Department
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of four thousand nine hundred and twenty-one dollars ($1,921) in aid of the following votes:—
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