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The life of Florence Nightingale. Vol. II (1862-1910) / Sir Edward Cook.

  • Cook, Sir Edward Tyas, 1857-1919.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The life of Florence Nightingale. Vol. II (1862-1910) / Sir Edward Cook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —The Doors versus Windows controversy. III. Her com- munications with Sir S. Northcote—Interviews with him—Her scheme of organization adopted—Dispatch and other sanitary papers drafted by her. IV. Attitude of the Government of India — Letters from Sir John Lawrence — Abandonment of a female nursing scheme—Miss Nightingale's vexation. V. Continued correspondence with Sir John Lawrence—His return to England—Visit to Miss Nightingale . . . • T44 CHAPTER III PUBLIC HEALTH MISSIONARY FOR INDIA (1868-1872) Miss Nightingale's little Indian Department all to herself, a main pre-occupation. Rest-cure at Malvern (Dec. 1867)—Visit to her mother at Lea Hurst (July-Oct. 1868)—Miss Nightingale's movements in following years. II. Mr. Jowett's plea for less official drudgery, and more literary work—Her Note on Pauperism in Fraser's Magazine—Interest in colonization— Interview with Mr. Goschen. III. Health work for India : (1) correspondence and interviews with Indian officials—Interviews with Lord Mayo—Correspondence with Lord Napier (Madras)— Special cholera inquiry. IV. An episode: Miss Night- ingale's intervention to save the Army Sanitary Commission and the Army Medical School from being retrenched out of existence—Statistical evidence of sanitary reform. V. Inter- views with Lord Napier of Magdala—Further correspondence with Lord Mayo—Other interviews and correspondence. VI. Health work for India : (2) acquaintance and correspondence with native Indian gentlemen—Sanitary appeal to village elders. VII. Health work for India : (3) work in connection with the Sanitary Department at the India Office—Contributions to and revision of the Indian Health Annual. VIII. Ten years' pro- gress : How some People have Lived, not Died, in India—How much, and yet how little! . . . . . .161 CHAPTER IV ADVISER-GENERAL ON HOSPITALS AND NURSING (1868-1872) Miss Nightingale as a central department relating to hospitals and nurses. Criticism of hospital plans— Suggestions for nursing organization in public institutions. II. Visits on such subjects from great personages—Interviews and correspondence with the Crown Princess of Prussia. III. Supervision of the Nightingale Training School—Personal influence—Miss Night- ingale's reception of lady superintendents and nurses going out from the School to other posts. IV. Closing of the Midwifery School at King's College Hospital—Miss Nightingale's Notes on Lying-in Institutions. V. The Franco-German War—Miss