Departmental reports are submitted regarding recommendations Nos. 2 and 3A of the Municipal Economy Committee, which are, in brief (1) that the private nursing service be discontinued except in so far as the work may be carried on by reserve nurses, and (2) that the foreign nursing staff be reduced to 35 mat-nurses. The Acting joner of Public Health states that the Eeonomy Committee has not dealt with the question of assistant and probationer nurses, and he recommends that the foreign Staff should include four assistant nurses and eight. probat) Mle considers that at present Chinese only be employed under certain limitations, since facilities for training them have been lacking, while on the other hand the retention of the assistant and proba tioner nurses is an important means of maintaining a supply of trained nurses. The "'Treasurer and Com. piroller endorses in general these estimates of the Council's req ments, which do not differ ally from" those enumerated by the Economy Committee.
After col. laboration with the Acting Cor missioner of Public Health, he reeommiends thay the necessary. stall consist of three matrons, five assistant matrons, 29 nurses, three Japanese nurses," four assistant burses and eight probationer nurses, The comparative costs, bused en th 15,000. The Commissioner of Public" Works now estimates the rst cust ab Ts. 5,000, but he states that suitable Arm longer available, suggests the ervotion of ies of nalerials at a cost better still the ain block with sep-stall quarters, in light von-terete an} brick construction, at cust of Ts. 53,000, ast named scheme is en the Acting Com of Public Health, who asserts that wooden buildings of the pavilion type are Commenting and Conte ptrolle remarks that the plans the Cor include four rooms conta beds each and four wards ouch market divergence' cost from the recon the Keonomy first free beds." In x further report, Ube Commissioner of Public Works: states that, by curtailing the min Dlock at both ends, it would hep sible to provide, aceoumodation' far 28 patients, thus eliminatinye Uwo of the proposed wards sand relucinse the cost by about "Tis, 7,000, He reiterates the opinion that woulen of vermin rant, for any but te porary Tu reply "to the Chairman's ques: Lon, the Commissioner of Public Works states that, while the use of huts may be Justified in an emer.
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