CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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(b) Cost of obtaining
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atisfactory (c) Cost of furnishing the Home
kong would be 1-12-
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the Civil Hos(a) Cost of maintenance of Home - .......... Ma and Sisters- (b) -Cost of Food, Uniform, etc., lecturing in addition to (0) Salaries.
duties.
Fastmond's Report, there hope that if her scheme tring be carried out, there Hongkong, a supply of nurses trained to meet the local re this colony. It seems to me of the Government should be ted to this end. I recommend there
papers be referred to the Colonial so that he and Dr. Atkinson may re- port after consultation with Miss Eastmond (1)~| what increase in the staff would be necessary to afford the Matron and Sisters time for regular teaching and lecturing, and the estimated cost, (2)whatcinorease in the staff would be neces- sary to supply private nursing to the com- munity and the probable cost, (3) what length of time it would require to train nurses- qualified to undertake private nursing.
JHA STEWART LOCKHARŤ, Colonial Secretary.
19th October, 1896/
The following is the joint report of Dr. Ayres, Dr. Atkinson, and Miss Eastmond
Government Civil Hospital,
Hongkong, 31st March, 1897. Sir--In accordance with your instructions, we have the honour to submit the following re- port in reply to the questions contained in your Memorandum dated 19th October, 1896, viz.
(a) What increase in the staff would be necessary 40 afford the Matron and Sisters time for regular teaching and lecturing and the estimated cost P (b). What increase in the staff would be necessary to supply private nursing to the community and the probable cost?
HOMES
Hongkong, 30th Marc
1,000 4,000
TO THE DEAR
$2,400 rising to 3,840 no Any project for supplying private nursing to the community would probably involve a much larger expenditure, necessitating at once an extension of the Medical Staff Quarters
and the obtaining of at least five more Sisters from England, We have the honour to be sir, your obedient servants,
The
PH. B. C. AYRES, 92–
Colonial Surgeon. J. MATKINSON,
Superintendent CLARA EASTMOND,
Matron.
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Honourable J. H. Stewart Lockhart, of the colony immediately Colonial Secretary.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.] DIAMOND JUBILEE SUGGESTIONS
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,' SIE,--As suggestions are now being sent in as to how to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, I submit two proposals, both in connection with the Government Civil Hospital. One is to develop a medical school to train medical men, the second to establish a training school to
train women as sick nurses.
I feel sure if the various competing schemes were laid before Her Majesty, she would certainly give her sympathy to these two most important matters.
The want of a Medical School is most serious. The Colonial Medical Service is most seriously undermanned, and a school training young men as assistants to the regular English medical staff would be of lasting importance. Men so trained, whether employed in the colony or on
u can
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and 18
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want to get much beyond,” an to of call and refreshment about half- ing after some hours absence in pi of wearied with the outing For t a total road length of fifteen miles good or better than thirty-five, and i section is part and parcel of the lar This more moderate scheme will fifth part of the larger undertaking quite within the means of the
Pray, Mr. Editor, do what this compromise. It is for the advan especially of those who, for one reaso another, are not able to live on the to hill. Those who do so even different to the lower road," as they also very weary, as do indeed all the inhabitants of this little island, of the unchanging sameness of every day existence. We all want some- times to get out, and it is so difficult to how and where to
an outing Yours faithfully,
(c) What length of time it would require the Chinese mainland, would spread English te
to train nurses qualified to undertake < private nursing ?- The scheme that appears most practicable is follows
Worl
Hongkong, 30th March, 1897-
SCRIBE
and the
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PERSS. Dear Sir, I have read with considerable terest the various suggestions thrown out your correspondents for a fitting memorial perpetuate the Queen's Diamond Jubiles. proposal to have a road seems to me the one, par excelleno Such a road would be
:
ritable boon to thousands. The project for a new clock tower is likewise excellent, the present one entirely inadequate for the requirements
influence and do much to enlighten the Chinese people as to Western ideas. Any expenditure laid out in such a way would repay itself, and repay Hongkong in the development of a The scheme to be confined to
demand for Western articles and the various (a) Giving periodical lectures on Nursing at elements of Western civilization. Hongkong the Belilios and other Schools for girls. could not make a better investment than in (b) Training persons in
Civil Hospital with Government / developing such a school, which for all the the colony.
years to come would benefit the colony and react on the Chinese people.
a view to their qualifying as nurses. This would in- clude lectures by the Nursing “and- Medical staff.
To give effect to such. a. scheme, arrange mente would have to be made to relieve the Matron of a portion of her present duties and to allow her or one of the other Sisters to give lectures.
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This can best be done by appointing an Assistant Matron at a salary of $50 per month, rising to $70 a month with uniform, rations,
quarters, and attendance.
The need of a Training School for female nurses has been frequently urged here, and it is believed that the sisters at the Civil Hospital have been thinking of the matter for a long time, although no definite step has been taken. Such a home constructed near the Hospital would house suitable women, and they would be messengers of English civilization, and order, and cleanliness to many a native home. They would be non-sectarian, and entirely aloof from any proselytizing work. The Civil Hospital would thus have as it were a right hand and a training of the persons:--- left hand, both employed in a work of great ly secure this, it is absolutely social and even political importance, the right at they should reside on the pre-hand training males to the science of medicine the immediate supervision of the and the left teaching women how to nurse, a Assistant Matron. Suitable science which deals completely with the home
pre- miges would therefore have to be erected for and its surroundings. this purpose
It is anticipated that the facilities offered. hospitali training such persons are bationers under- and the same time, be required for probationers.
by
To eff
Hongkong has now a unique opportunity of combining private philanthropy with re- gulated state aid in a movement to celebrate a great historic event. It is almost im possible to place any limit on the power for good socially and the influence which may spread politically from the opening of two such institution Hongkong education is al aready actin on Chin as witness the late diplomatic appe ta by China, Hongkong is only En
ross the seas, and it is Eng special ion to do work such as this
er her flag
ould not achieve.
now suggested:
would it is quite ce
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KT think school at the Peak and against Chinamon and their char heartless and unjust as it is ab called for Yours faithfully
Hongong, 30th March, 1897-
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAT
Dear Sir, At last the oppo
being
JUNIUS,
arrived of supplying a long felt want colony. Why talk of roads, of statues, perambulating clock towers, when you can a fund for the relief of the over under fed military officers stat pose the fund be termed Fund for the relief of in Hongkong.
estimate: of hundred t
thousand to start on. I theref .81 (one dollar) on
persons agree to do
Hongkong, 30th arch, 1897
TO THE DITOR
Institute
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