The life and letters of Sir John Hall ... / by S.M. Mitra ; with an introduction by Rear-Admiral Sir R. Massie Blomfield .. ; with portraits and illustrations.

  • Mitra, Siddha Mohana, 1856-1925.
Date:
1911
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Credit: The life and letters of Sir John Hall ... / by S.M. Mitra ; with an introduction by Rear-Admiral Sir R. Massie Blomfield .. ; with portraits and illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hall. In her Notes she emphatically asserts: “ It is well known that the Medical Staff exerted itself to the very utmost, and incurred a large propor- tionate mortality among its members in conse- quence.” Both she and Sir John Hall lament the lack of foresight shown by heads of the Medical Department in England at the commencement of the war, and Miss Nightingale acknowledges the unceasing efforts made by her colleague to remedy the defects of the home management. If her official correspondence, which has been withheld, shows that she occasionally differed from him, it was merely on points of detail. I venture to hope, therefore, that her executor will undertake ere long to publish all her letters which he has now precluded me from using. I have thought it desirable to examine some of the best of the numerous books on the Crimean War—it is impossible to consult them all—in order to ascertain how far the facts gleaned from Sir John Hall’s papers are supported by other observers. For this purpose some passages have been extracted from the Biography of Mr. J. T. Delane (Editor of the Times), by Mr. A. J. Dasent ; Mr. Kinglake’s well-known work on The Invasion of the Crimea, and its adaptation for the use of students bySir George Sydenham Clarke, K.C.M.G., R.E., now Governor of Bombay ; from The War,