§ MR. STEWART MACLIVERasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, If he is aware that the nurses at the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse (Devon), are often obliged to work nineteen hours a-day (even on Sunday) without remuneration for extra time; and, if he will take steps to stop these protracted hours and limit them to the time for which the nurses stipulated to serve?
§ MR. CAINE(who replied) said: At Plymouth Hospital the nurses are on duty 15 hours a-day—that is, from 6 A.M. to 9 P.M., and when on ordinary night duty, which is three times a-week on an average, have a watch of four hours in addition, without payment for "extra time," so called, except when looking after critical cases, when they get an allowance of Is. a-night. There are no stipulated hours of duty. Leave is granted for one day a-week and alternate Sundays.