The Overseas Nursing Association.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ATHLONE, K.G., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., D.S.O.
Lady Wilson.
President
Chairman, Nursing Committee
LADY MA
Telegraphic Address:
"Reparative, Southkens, London."
Telephone: Kensington 3556.
Hon. Secretary LADY ANTROBUS, D.B.E. Secretary
MISS GAWAN TAYLOR.
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE,
SOUTH KENSINGTON,
S.W.7.
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sir,
The letter from the Colonial Office of the 9th of January enclosing a despatch on the proposal to set up a local cadre of Nursing Sisters in Hong Kong, has been placed before the Executive Committee of the Overseas Nursing Association.
The Committee consider that the proposal should be beneficial as it offers an incentive to the daughters of British residents to take up nursing training for service in the Government Hospitals of Hong Kong. The Committee wish, however, that the attention of the Governor be drawn to the fact that though there is reciprocity for general training between the Hong Kong Nurses Board and the General Nursing Council for England & Wales, there are not, at present, reciprocal arrangements between Hong Kong and the Central Midwives Board of this country.
The C.M.B. certificate is an essential qualification for Nursing Sisters appointed through the Overseas Nursing Association for the Colonial Nursing Service in Hong Kong. In 1938 a circular was addressed to the Colonial Governments explaining that the Central Midwives Board had amended their rules so that in future the training for the C.M.B. certifi- cate would take twelve months for a State Registered General nurse (two years for an untrained woman). General trained nurses now sit for the examination of the First Certificate at the end of six months midwifery training and most of the Colonial Governments have accepted this Certificate for general Nursing Sister posts, and have said that special instructions will be given in particular cases where the full C.M.B. certificate is required. The Hong Kong Government has limited recruitment for every Nursing Sister post to candidates possessing the Certificates of both the First and Second Examinations and the Overseas Nursing Association is therefore more restricted in its selection of Nursing Sisters for Hong Kong than for Malaya and other Colonies.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
M. Gowan Tayla
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
S.W.1.
Secretary.
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preating to
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I am etc. to transmit to you, to
be laid before the Committee of the Overseas
Nursing Association, a copy of a despatch
from the Governor of Hong Kong, containing a
proposal to set up a local cadre of
Nursing Sisters by recruitment among the
daughters of local resident British families
It will be observed that it is suggested
that the local cadre of such nurses should
not exceed one-fifth of the establishment
of posts now filled by members of the Colonial
Nursing Service in Hong Kong.
2.
The Secretary of State sees no
reason to dissent from this proposal, but he
considers that, at any rate until some
experience has been gained of the standard
of training and performance of these nurses,
it should be made clear to intending
candidates for the appointments that they
are required for local service in Hong Kong,
and that no mention should be made in any
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the prospects of service
advertisements elsewhere, the
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3. Before replying to the despatch,
Lord Lloyd would be very grateful if he
could be furnished with the views of your
Committee on the proposal.
I am, etc.
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