CO129-498-25 Improvement of conditions under which pensions are awarded to nursing sisters and European matrons 30-9-1926 - 7-2-1927 — Page 7

No 466

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Sir,

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13 DEC 1976

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG.

10th November, 1926.

closure

- 7 FEB 1927

Gor Fugg

panz

I have the honour to state that this

Government has had under consideration for some years proposals for improving the conditions under which pensions

are awarded to Nursing Sisters, as it has been felt that the

present rules do not provide adequate pensions. I enclose,

for convenience of reference, an extract from the report of the Finance Committee held on the 30th September, 1926,

which was adopted by the Legislative Council on the 15th

October, and forwarded to you in my despatch No.440 of 25th

October, 1926.

2.

The smallness of Nursing Sisters' pensions

as compared with the pensions of other Government servants

is due in part to their relatively low rates of salary, and in part to their shorter average period of service owing to

a higher age on recruitment and an earlier age of retirement, for the training and experience required before appointment mean that Nursing Sisters often join the service at an age higher than the average at which other officers join, nor

is it desirable that they should remain in the service until

they attain the age of 55,since few women are physically fit for the work of nursing in the tropics beyond the age of 50.

3.

In Hong Kong Nursing Sisters are at present

subject to the same pension rules as are other Government

servants

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L. C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&c.,

&C.,

&c.