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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 19, 1914.

Now it is hereby resolved that the importation into the Colony of any kind of raw opium except (a) Indian opium covered by export permits from the Govern- ment of India to the effect that it has been declared for shipment t› or consumption in China, and (b) Persian opium is illegal and it is further hereby resolved that a notification shall be made in the nert issue of the Gazette to this effect and it is also hereby resolved that Notification No. 70 published in the Gazette of the 2nd March, 1914, be rescinded.

The Attorney General seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

QUESTIONS. Mr. POLLOCK, pursuant to notice, asked the following Questions:-

1. Did His Excellency the Officer then administering the Government forward to the Right Honourable the Serretory of State for the Colonies the proposal which was made by the Honourable member for the Chamber of Commerce in this Council, on the 23rd October last, for a Committee of Five Justicès of the Peace into the whole question as to the supply of nurses in the Govern- ment Hospitals, their pay, allowances, and all other kindred questions relating to the efficiency of this branch of our public service"? If so, what was the reply of the Secretary of State for the Colonies and when was it received?

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2. Has the letter of the Superint nnt of the Government Civil Hospital, dated the 2nd July last, and addressed to the Principal Civil Medical Officer, setting forth on behalf of the Sisters reasons why they considered that their numbers should be increased by tw, or has a copy of such letter ever been forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies? If so, when was it forwarded?

3. Was it impossible to obtain the sanction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the increase of two sisters in the Staff prior to the introduction of the Estimates for 1914 in this Council?

4. Were the two additional Probationers, decided upon by His Excellency the Gorernor on the 19th August last, introdured into the Estimates for 1914 with the previous sanction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies? If so, how was such sanction obtained and when? If not, has such sanction been since obtained and when?

5. In connection with the answer to my third Question at the last Meeting of this Council, how many of such-2018 cases were Military Women, and how many of such cases were Maternity cases? For about how many days, on the average, did each of such maternity cases remain in a Government Hospital, in 1913?

6. What fees per diem are paid to the Government in respect of

(a) Military Women, and

(b) Military Children?

What items of expenditure, and to what amount, produce the result, which is alleged in the answer to my third Question at the last Meeting of this Council, namely, that, although $8,881.88 was received, in 1913, by the Government in fees on account of Military Women and Children, such fees leave no profit to the Government?

7. In connection with that part of the answer to my third Question at the last Meet- ing of this Council which sets forth the percentages of cases treated at the Maternity and Victoria Hospitals, will the Government state the actual numbers of cases dealt with at each of such Hospitals during each of the years 1908 to 1913 inclusive?

8. When was the nursing of plague-cases transferred from the Kennedy Town Hospital to the Government Civil Hospital? How many plague-cases were treated at the Government (ivil Hospital during the years 1912 and 1913 respectively? How many of such cases have been treated there during each month since the beginning of the present year? Are such plague-cases treated in an isolation ward or in the general ward?