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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1988.

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Personalities of Old Hongkong] GRIN AND BEAR IT

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The

kong Government during the latter part of the last century was the Honourable Frederick Stewart, LL.D. He was a man who was justly esteemed by all sections of the community on ac count of his integrity and devotion to the manifold duties of the Civil Service. His lung carcer of nearly 28 years, moreover, was a most noteworthy one, although unfortunately cut short whilst he was yet in the prime of life; but still it can be said that he died ni ho no doubt wished-"in harness”.

Frederick Stewart was born in no doubt to his remarkable com- Scotland about the year 1888. mand of the Cantonese vernacu- Like many of those who served lar. Few civil servants, either Gone here during the first quarter of past or present, can be stated to have possessed such a fluent the existence of Hongkong as a knowledge of the colloquial idiom Crown Colony, not much is a fund of information which known of his antecedents. Ho Dr. Stewart steadily employed and was, nevertheless, a man of ex- in gaining the confidence

cateem of the Chinese com- cellent educntion: for he was a

munity, so that he was con-

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Wednesday, JUNE B, 1938.

FRANCE ASKS: WHO AND WHY?

The accusation of the Paris newspaper, Le Temps, that there are powers in Europe to-day deliberately working against appeasement is alarming; but it scarcely comes as a surprise. For some time it has been sug- gested that ambitious nations have made the most of confu- sion and fear in neighbouring otates and have deliberately chosen their times" for various coups when agitation has been at its height. German states.

to have admitted this strategy. But Le Temps is very blunt about its declaration that

men

graduate of the University of sidered by them in a most Aberdeen, where he obtained his affectionate light-a sort of "big M.A degree in 1859 after a brother"-an official who was al- scholastic career of unusual bril- ways ready to help them in any liance, obtaining first class way that he could. Moreover,. and possessing a seat on the Legisla- intellectual honours in

tive Council, he was thereby in moral subjects.

a position to accomplish a great For a young man in his early deal of useful work for the com- twenties, the Cast seemed to munity which so much admired

and respected him. afford the greatest opportuni-

After the retirement of Mr.

career. His first

dag, 1838 Waridi Factors Syndicate, fan.

By Lichty

"Have you anything to add to that "Ah Nuts', statement, Senator?"

Dr. ELIZABETH SLOAN CHESSER tells you

THE TRUTH ABOUT NURSES

THE nurses have a case,

I know of one nurse who went to

a strong case. Short-dance with her father. She stayed

ought to have asked for late leave

from the hospital. More-

er hours, better pay, better out late without permission. She ties, and accordingly he chose w. H. Marsh, the Colonial Secre. treatment. To these demands and she deserved punishment. But the colonial service as the most tary, in the year 1887, Dr. Ste- everyone who knows the condi- not what she received. She was dis- fitting vehicle for a successful wart was appointed as his auction of this important branch of missed

than three years of training lost! appointment cessor, he having served in that medicine would give support. was to Hongkong, where he ar- capacity several previous

ap rived in December 1861, as In- occasions as a temporary spector of Schools, and inciden pointee. tally, too, Headmaster of the old Government

on

Central School, He embarked on the duties of which has since become Queen's his high office with the greatest College. In these positions he ardour and in the two years in until 1876, which he held the post proved served with credit when a favourable opportunity himself most capable, and would afforded further advancement, have indubitably won for him- This came in his nomination as Coroner of the Colony of Hong- kong, and later as Police Magis- trate.

About this time, too, his splen- did work of nearly 15 years in the cause of education in the Colony received recognition from his alma mater-the University the raids by mysterious aircraft of Aberdeen-which conferred the frontier are for the upon hin the honorary degree of purpose of preventing the opera- LL.D.

over

tion of the Non-Intervention agreement and removal of

foreign

a

It was not until 1883 that his

the volunteers from Spanish civil war zone, which is series of steady promotions ap-

The Hon. Frederick Stewart.

!

No one denies the necessity of dis-

To my mind, this problem which nurses are trying to solve in primarl- cipline in the wards, but this disclp- line should be relaxed in off-duty the profession ly economie. Does

hours. As it is, the beautifully attract a sufficient number of the furnished nurses homes are some- right type of woman? We know times regarded as gilded cages by that it does not. We know that the the girls for whom they are intended. situation is serious. There are not enough trained nurses in the country.

Advertise for a typist or a secre lary and you will get hundreds of these might be replies. Half of nurses. In an epidemic of influenza many die for lack of nurses. What would happen in war ilme?

One nurse said to me, "We are not allowed to enter our sitting-room un- less we are in uniform or wearing outdoor clothes and hats."

Nurses hate to the system of worke spread-over duly. If they overtime they receive time off later, perhaps a half-day, but they are not Now we cannot get enough nurses able to

with make arrangements because the trained nurse is under- friends beforehand. They want de- paid. Let me tell you about the pay finite working hours each day. Some

Nurses after four years' training of them, too, want to live out. Why staff nurses in hospital wards-are not? given £70 a year. Just about what

you pay your cook. An advertise-

ļ

Four Years' Training

ment for a male cook for a nurses'

NURSE'S training lasts: home-ironte is it not?-gives the

four years, nearly as long wages as £110 per annum all found. as that of a doctor, and it ought to

Sisters receive from £80 to £120 include midwifery, training in health

a year, the pay of a butler in the West visiting and fever treatment, End of London.

£250 For Sisters

When the training is complete and: the nurses are State registered-it took 50 years to achieve this for the

THAT then, in regard to profession-they should receive re-

WHAT

puy, is the organised Guild muncration

of Nurses oaking? It asks that a professions

on a level with other

of trained women-

staff nurse should receive £200 a teachers, for instance. year, and live out if she wishes. If

Nursing need not be a she lived in hospital, the expenses to "sacrifice" any more than medicine be deducted from her pay. Perfect

fair.

life of:

The domination and. interference of medical superinten-- dents, especially in fever hospitals,.

or teaching.

is unnecessary.

that the

The profession should be allowed to organise itself, and I mean by nursco should "be governed by the senior members of their own profession.

Another serious problem is competition. State-registered nuZEĆE have to meet from the half-qualified and half-trained nurses.

the

a natural outcome. That is aproached anything like an ap- grave charge. Yet what else pointment in the actual circle of is the explanation for these in the administration, when he was named to succeed Mr. James cursions into France? What possible excuse can there be for is recorded that his nomination in some one of Her Majesty's Russell as Registrar General. It self eventually a governorship

bombers out of Spain to attack

was received with unanimous colonial possessions. He served A sister, says the Guild, should be an innocent French village un-approval; for Dr. Stewart in as the Officer Administering the paid £250 with the right to live out in rooms or a flat. If she has meals leas it is to cause friction, dis- addition to his record of long and Government of the Colony on trust and tension? If it were a conscientious service, seemed to one or two occasions within his in hospital she pays for them at the

short period of office during the canteen or mess. mistake there would be no have possessed the difficult knack absence of the then Governor,

The "grievances" of sisters are not The Chi- Sir William Des Voeux. Indeed, entirely selfish. They maintain that attempt to disguise the planes of pleasing every one.

whilst serving in this under the present system they have which take part. But the fact nese residents of the Colony were it was

in particular devoted to him. capacity that he contracted the so much clerical work to do, so much is the mystery raiders have no This was due in great measure malady which was so suddenly stocktaking, und balancing, and writ- insignia. They may be Spanish

to cut short his career of useful-ing that the patients suffer from luck They used to speak of “stickit doc--

slaters them- tors" in Scotland. Well, "stickit" Insurgent planes or they may

ness. It seems that he presided of attention and the at a dinner given in honour of selves have not the time to train nurses who have failed in their State. examinations, or served only a short their Italian collaborators, come from some neighbour state or

the officers of the Brazilian man- their probationers.

term in hospital or nursing home, to whose advantage it would be why did they not disguise planes 'o-war, the Almirante Barros

A nurse, under present rates of having just a smattering of medi- cine, are being sent to municipal and to stir up trouble on the Franco-as Insurgent or Italian bombers?which was then on a courtesy pay, cannot provide for her indepen- other hospitais at fees higher than: Spanish border, and thereby Conjecture does not get one any. Visit to the Colony, and during dence in old age. I know many, too those paid to members of the trained

the festivities, he contracted a old and too ill to work, whose lives staff. prevent the working of the Non-where in a case of this sort, but slight cold.. Dr. Stewart seem- are tragle and filled with fear.

ed to regard it, however, as of no Intervention agreement and the the strange facts invite it. settlement of the Spanish pro- Not only Lo Temps, but the consequence; for he apparently soon he was blem by Spaniards. The Italian French press of all shades of neglected it, and

confined to his bed with an at- press, of course, jumps to the opinion, demands that firm ac-tack of pneumonia. After conclusion that the raiders are [tion be taken to put a stop to short illness, he died at his re- Spanish Government aircraft; these frontier violations. The sidence in Arbuthnot Road, on September 29, 1889, and was contending that so desperate ia preparations which

ONE reason being buried in the colonial cemetery the plight of the Government made for the reception of any in Happy Valley. forces that only by the ag-future visitors may very well gravating of the great powers to discourage similar adventures; His name is still largely re- such a point that they will but if it ever does chance that membered in Hongkong, being one of tho intervene in Spain or attack French

gunners have the for-perpetuated in

thoroughfares of the Colony. General Franco's allies, can the tune to force down one of these This is Stewart Road in Wan-er, what happens? Her superiors of bodies are shutting down words be Loyalists hope to win. But that mystery planes the conse-chal, one of the new streets re- her opinions are immature, her views and women are kept on the walling does not seem sound. In the quences may prove more than sultant from the Praya East Re-not worth considering. She is nonen- list of hospitals until it is too late first place, if the Loyalists had (embarrassing, Someone is clamation Project, which was so tity, and yet she has, by the very to save them. any intention of creating an in-gambling for big stakes to take long advocated by Sir Paul nature of her work, to make serious

Chater, and brought to a suc- |cident calculated to involve auch risks as must be involved cossful completion some years

Franco against the Insurgents in these lawless enterprises.

are

ago.

a

There are pension schemes, we know, but these are too costly. The pensions are not interchangeable and the nurses are somellines afraid to take better or more congenial posts in case they lose their pensions.

Petty Nagging

Undercutting Fees

IN private nursing a serious situation arises because the untrained here often go out at smaller fees than the trained nurses. This undercutting should be stopped.

Lastly, the long hours nurses must: work are a disgrace. Think of duty many for 13 hours with a break for two why so girls do not wish to train az and a half hours and times for

$4-hours nurses in the lack of freedom, the meals, A

week, some». petty nagging and harsh dielpline to times longer. Whom ore we to blame? which they are subjected. The mo- The hospitals for their apathy or the dern girl has freedom and expresses general public for their failure to I valuable.

her opinion, which in most cases is realise the danger to themselyca?

And there is a danger when the Suppose the becomes a probation- position la so serious that public every grade take the altitude that cause of shortage of nurses. Men

decisions.

The nation must have nurses, só it seems fair, decent, and sensible As one ward sister said to a nurse, to reorganise the profession. Let us I know: "It is not your business to yield to just demands for better con-

ditions, freedom, and security. think, but to do."