§ 89. Mr. Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will consider putting in hand a large-scale plan for the immigration of girls from our colonial territories to train here as nurses, so that the hospitals here could have the benefit of their services during training, and the hospitals in the Colonies benefit considerably by their experience on their return.
Mr. GriffithsThere are 642 Colonial nursing students in the United Kingdom under existing schemes and an increasing flow of new entrants. I believe that the present flow is about right; the number of suitable candidates is limited, and if too many of them came to this country at once, training of nurses in the Colonies themselves would suffer.