Observations on the evidence contained in the stational reports submitted to her by the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India / by Florence Nightingale.

  • Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Observations on the evidence contained in the stational reports submitted to her by the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India / by Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Surely we have suiScient knowledge of dietetics to ' be able now-a-days to vary our diet to suit climates and seasons, and to know that we cannot eat every- thing everywhere. Sir John Lawrence says in his evidence that Government ' might try to induce the ' men, by varying the ration with reference to hot or ' cold weather, to take more to vegetable diet.' The means of cooking are of the rudest order — a small square outhouse, sometimes without a chimney, often far from clean, is the regimental kitchen. As for boilers and ovens, considered indispensable at home, there are none. A few holes to put the fire in, and moveable utensils to hold over them, are all that India thinks it wants. There is of course no water laid on, and no drainage. Here as elsewhere is the inevitable cesspit, and sometimes there are two. Fig. 7 is a plan of a double kitchen at Hazaree- Fig. 7. COOK-HOUSE. HAZAREKBAUGH. Plan.