The Council has decided, upon the recommendation of the Staff Com mittee, that a Home Sister for the Vitoria Nurses Home be engaged from April 1, 1933. The appointee will act in an advisory capacity in regard to interior fur-rushings, equipment, ete, pending the completion of the Home. Normally she will be in complete charge of the building acc: tmiodating 100 nurses, and able to an Administrative Committee for its proper management, The Council has decided that the status of the appointee shall be similar to that of Assistant Matron, Grade 2 N (b) although a know: Jedge of nursing is not an essential qualification. Grade 2 N (b) con-corns the appointment of Assistant Biatrons on the nursing stof SACRED HEART HOSPITAL, Application for Special Grant for Maternity Block.
An application by the Sacred Heart Hospital for financial assist ance to permit the erection of a maternity block, operations on which had to be suspended owing to A Tack of funds, was submitted at a meeting of the Health Committee libeld on December 18.
"As this hospital is at present the only one serving the far Bastern District and owing to its offer to receive the poorer classes of foreign, Chinese and Indian women free of charge oF at a reduced the Commissioner of Publi, of opinion that its application for financial support merited sympathy fe consideration.
The Health Committee aly concurred in the above proposal tit was recommended that ditional annual grant of Ts. 8,000] th to this hospital be authorized, this sum, which represents the equiva ent of the interest charge on 50,000, to be specially earmarked for such payment, The Council adopted this reeommendation on December 21,
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