We appreciate that in the administration of the Council's hospitals the Health Department has faced and continues to face a situation unparalleled in the history of the Settlement and that if the Council is to maintain Foreign Nursing Staff sufficient to cope with the changed conditions steps should be taken to provide conditions of service which will encourage those now employed to remain in the Service and also to facilitate recruitment of the necessary staff replacements.
The following were among the suggestions offered. for the Council's consideration. The training locally of foreign girls is a problem we recommend should be serously reconsidered and the possibility of the setting up of an Examining Board in the East which would be able to give certi-floated recognition of such training be investigated.
"That as and when Chinese Nurses are found capable of assuming the responsibilities of the higher nursing posts they be eligible for the higher appointments contingent upon their having an adequate knowledge of English.
That reference now made to Chinese Nurses and Chinese Staff Nurses in Grade 2N(c) and 2N(d) respectively be deleted and the following new grades: be introduced in the foreign grading scale—
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