CO129-519-5 Nurses Registration Ordinance- 1929- Bill 19-9-1929 - 25-2-1930 — Page 13

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provisions as set out in section 5(1) of the bill are

similar to section 6 of the iurses Registration Act.

4. The bill, however, proposes to carry the

admission of nurses somewhat further than the Act.

Under section 5(2) provision is made for the

admission to the register of persons trained outside the Colony. This will include not only British

possessions but foreign countries. Situate as the

Colony is, on the borders of China, with hospitals in Shanghai and other places in China equipped with

every modern appliance and served by highly efficient medical men, it becomes desirable that

these centres and the Colony should mutually

recognize one another. With this end in view it is

proposed to admit to the register nurses trained out- side the Colony. The necessary safeguards are in

the bill, viz. that the training and examination are

not lower than that required by the bill and that applicants under this section may, before admission

to the register is granted, have to pass an examina- tion to the satisfaction of the Board. The chairman

of the board is the Director of Medical and sanitary Services of the Colony and the standard of training and examination is to be kept up to that of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales,

5.

To ensure reciprocal treatment by the General Council for England Wales for all persons on the register and to avoid any question as to this in future, I am submitting the bill and regulations, so that, if no objection be seen, it may be brought to the notice of the General Nursing Councils for England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, in order that their views upon the subject may be obtained

before