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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    means of doing any of these things. All the spare time people usually give to active occupations he spends lounging in his hot barrack room, most of it on his bed. The accompanying graphic woodcut of the manner in which a soldier spends his day is from a drawing kindly sent me by an Indian officer of rank. (See pages 40 and 41.) India actually reverses the ordinary human day, for the men spend 18 hours of the 24 in or on their beds, and six hours only up or out. Indeed, Kamptee says that 'for many months of the year ' the men are confinedto barracks for 20 out of 24 'hours.' And your imagination must fancy 100 to 600 men or more packed into the same room for eating and sleeping away these 20 hours. This is an account of a soldier's day:— bed ^ill daybreak; drill for an hour; breakfast, served to him by native servants; bed; dinner, served to him by native servants; bed; tea, served to him by native servants; drink; bed;—and da capo. So that the Briton exactly spends his spare time between eating, drinking, lounging, or sleeping; and he eats meat always twice and sometimes three times a day.