The Life of Florence Nightingale Volume II Part 31

1864

(41) _How People may live and not die in India. By Florence Nightingale._ (_Read at the Meeting of the National a.s.sociation for the Promotion of Social Science, held at Edinburgh, October 1863._) London: Emily Faithfull, 1863. A pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 11, in lilac-coloured paper wrappers.

This Paper, of wide fame in its day, appeared in three forms: (1) In reports of the Social Science a.s.sociation's Meetings (No. 39); also very fully reported in the _Scotsman_, October 9, 1863.

(2) In the pamphlet, above described, which, though dated 1863, was not issued till Jan. 1864. 250 copies were printed for private circulation only.

(3) A _second edition_, widely circulated, appeared in November 1864, published by Longmans, 8vo, pp. 18 (lilac wrapper), with a new Preface (dated August 1864).

(42) _Suggestions, in Regard to Sanitary Works required for Improving Indian Stations, prepared by the Barrack and Hospital Improvement Commission._ Blue-book (Suggestions, pp. 1-37), issued in 1864.

These Suggestions are signed by the members of the Commission. They were written mainly by Miss Nightingale. The MS. of the Suggestions as first sent to the printers, preserved among her papers, is in her handwriting, with some additions by Dr. Sutherland. The section (and numerous ill.u.s.trations in an appendix) dealing with drainage and water-supply was contributed by Mr. R. Rawlinson. See Vol. II. p. 48.

A _revised edition_ was issued in 1882.

1865

(43) _Remarks by the Barrack and Hospital Improvement Commission on a Report by Dr. Leith on the General Sanitary Condition of the Bombay Army._ Parliamentary Paper, 1865, No. 329.

The original draft of this Paper was prepared by Dr. Sutherland and Miss Nightingale (see Vol. II. p. 54).

(44) _Suggestions on a System of Nursing for Hospitals in India._ A letter to the Secretary of the Sanitary Commission for Bengal, pp. 18.

Signed "Florence Nightingale, London, February 24, 1865." Folio, pp. 18.

Introduction, pp. 1-3; detailed Suggestions, pp. 4-18. The Introduction (as is shown by a MS. amongst Miss Nightingale's Papers) was written by Sir John McNeill. Miss Nightingale's letter was included, as an appendix, in an Indian Official Paper (Simla, Aug. 29, 1866) (see Vol. II. p. 55).

(45) _Nursing a.s.sociation for the Diocese of Lichfield_.... By E. J.

Edwards. London: Parker, 1865. A pamphlet, with letter from F. N. dated April 13, 1865, on p. 1.

(46) _The Organization of Nursing in a Large Town_ (an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School). With an Introduction, and Notes, by Florence Nightingale. Liverpool, 1865. Octavo, pp. 103.

Miss Nightingale's Introduction occupies pp. 9-16. The book also contains (pp. 25-26) a letter from her, dated November 30, 1861, on the "Training and Employment of Women in Hospital, District, and Private Nursing."

A Swedish translation, by Frau Engelskau, appeared at Stockholm in 1869.

(47) _Note on the Aboriginal Races of Australia: a Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the National a.s.sociation for the Promotion of Social Science, held at York, September 1864._ London: Printed by Emily Faithfull, 1865. A pamphlet without wrappers, pp. 8.

The "Note" had previously been printed in the _Transactions_ of the National a.s.sociation for the Promotion of Social Science, 1864, pp. 552-558.

(48) _Death of Pastor Fliedner, of Kaiserswerth._ A quarto circular, pp. 4; three letters, dated Oct. 21, Nov. 21, Dec. 10, 1864.

The last letter was an appeal for a Fund to support his widow and children. The first two of the letters had already appeared in _Evangelical Christendom_, New Series, vol. v. pp. 535-536 (November), pp. 584-586 (December).

1867

(49) _Report of the Committee on Cubic s.p.a.ce of Metropolitan Workhouses with Papers submitted to the Committee._ Blue-book, 1867. Paper xvi. is Miss Nightingale's "Suggestions on the Subject of Providing, Training, and Organizing Nurses for the Sick Poor in Workhouse Infirmaries," pp.

64-79 (dated Jan. 19, 1867).

For this Paper, see Vol. II. pp. 135-6. Miss Nightingale had copies of it separately printed. Folio, pp. 16. Subsequently (1868) she issued an abridgment of the Paper: _Method of Improving the Nursing Service of Hospitals_. Folio, pp. 8 (some copies have an appendix, pp. 11).

Some of the contents were again printed in 1874.

(50) _Workhouse Nursing._ A letter to Mr. William Rathbone, dated Feb. 5, 1864, printed at pp. 4-6 of _Workhouse Nursing: the Story of a Successful Experiment_. Macmillan, 1867.

For this letter, see Vol. II. p. 125.

1868

(51) "Una and the Lion." A paper in _Good Words_, June 1868, pp. 360-366.

An account of Miss Agnes Elizabeth Jones, "the pioneer of workhouse nursing." It was reprinted, with some slight alterations, as "Introduction" to _Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones, by her Sister_ (1871), a book which ran into many editions (5th, 1872). The use of Miss Nightingale's Paper in that book was unauthorized, and she objected to the Memorials as one-sided and morbid, and giving no true account of Miss Jones's work. For this paper, see Vol. II. p. 140.

(52) _Memorandum on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India up to the end of 1867; together with Abstracts of the Sanitary Reports. .h.i.therto forwarded from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay._ Printed by the order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1868.

The Memorandum consists of (1) a resume of the Sanitary Question from 1859 to 1867; (2) dispatch from Sir Stafford Northcote of April 23, 1868; (3) a review of the situation. Of these, (1) was written by F. N.; (2) was drafted by her, (3) was written by her (see Vol. II.

p. 154).

1869

(53) "A Note on Pauperism." An article in _Fraser's Magazine_, March 1869, pp. 281-290.

See Vol. II. p. 164.

(54) _Report on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India during the year 1868 and up to the month of June 1869; together with Abstracts_, etc. Blue-book.

The Introductory Memorandum, pp. 1-8, was mainly written by F. N.

(see Vol. II. p. 181).

1870

(55) Letter, dated May 25, 1870, to the Council of the _Bengal Social Science a.s.sociation_, on being elected an Honorary Member thereof.

Printed at pp. xiv., xv. of the _Transactions_ of the a.s.sociation (Calcutta, 1870).

On her Indian work for 11 years.

(56) _Indian Sanitation._ Printed at pp. 1-9 of the _Transactions_ of the Bengal Social Science a.s.sociation (Calcutta, 1870).

The address was sent with a covering letter, dated June 24, 1870.

A note by the President of the a.s.sociation says: "Our a.s.sistant-secretary, Babu Nilmoney Dey, has undertaken to translate this n.o.ble address to the People of India into Bengali, and it shall be the care of our Council to provide that, before the end of the year, its wise and benevolent monitions shall have free means of access to every native homestead, at least in this Presidency of India."

(57) _Report on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India from June 1869 to June 1870; together with Abstracts_, etc. Blue-book.

This includes two contributions by F. N., viz.: