The Life of Florence Nightingale Volume II Part 35

(124) _Village Sanitation in India._ Letter from Miss Nightingale to the Secretary of State for India (Lord Cross), dated March 1892, enclosing a Memorandum signed by members of the India Committee of the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography (1891). Printed in _India_, July 15, 1892, pp. 200.

See Vol. II. p. 379.

(125) Introduction to _Behramji M. Malabari: a Biographical Sketch_, by Dayaram Gidumal. London: Fisher Unwin, 1892.

Miss Nightingale's Introduction occupies pp. v.-viii.

(126) Health at Home. Letters in the _Report of the Training of Rural Health Missioners and of their Village Lecturing and Visiting under the Bucks County Council: 1891-92._ Winslow: E. J. French. Pamphlet, pp. 50.

There are three letters by F. N.: (1) a letter (dated Oct. 17, 1891) to Mr. Frederick Verney on the importance of training rural health missioners; (2) a letter, dated October 1892, to "Village Mothers,"

pp. 14, 15; (3) a letter, dated November 21, 1892, reporting on the experiment and urging its continuance (see Vol. II. p. 384).

(127) _Cholera: What we can do?_ By George H. De'Ath, medical officer of health for Buckingham. Buckingham: Walford & Son. Pamphlet, in green paper wrappers, pp. 19.

The last pages (18, 19) were contributed by F. N. An appeal to fight against cholera by preventive sanitation; "for if cholera does not come we are winning the day against fever," etc.

(128) "Hospitals." Article in _Chambers' Encyclopaedia_, new edition, revised and partly re-written by F. N.

(129) _Royal British Nurses' a.s.sociation._ "Remarks by Miss Nightingale on a Register for Nurses."

This was part of the case against the Royal Charter argued before the Privy Council in November 1892. Among Miss Nightingale's Papers are the original MS., a typed copy, and a MS. copy on brief paper made by the Solicitors for the opponents. I include it in the Bibliography, a.s.suming that it was printed for the Privy Council.

(130) "Mrs. Wardroper." A memorial notice of the late matron of St.

Thomas's Hospital, printed simultaneously, December 31, 1892, in the _British Medical Journal_ (under the t.i.tle "The Reform of Sick Nursing and the late Mrs. Wardroper") and in the _Hospital Nursing Supplement_ ("A Nursing Worthy").

For extracts, see Vol. I. p. 458.

1893

(131) "Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing." A Paper in pp. 184-205 of _Woman's Mission: a Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women by Eminent Writers_. Arranged and edited, with a Preface and Notes, by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1893. A publication issued by the Royal British Commission, Chicago Exhibition, 1893.

The main part of the paper occupies pp. 184-199. Then comes an "Addendum" on District Nursing, with an account of the Bucks "Health-Nurse Training" system and "Syllabus of Lectures to Health Missioners."

(132) "Health Lectures for Indian Villages." A Paper printed in _India_, October 1893, pp. 305-306.

1894

(133) "Health and Local Government." An Introduction (pp. i.-ii.) to _Report of the Bucks Sanitary Conference, October 1894_. Aylesbury: Poulton & Co.

Miss Nightingale's Introduction was also separately printed as a small fly-leaf, pp. 2, headed _Health and Local Government, by Florence Nightingale_.

(134) _Health Teaching in Towns and Villages. Rural Hygiene. By Florence Nightingale._ London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1894.

A pamphlet, pp. 27. Reprinted from a Paper read at the Conference of Women Workers held at Leeds, November 7 to 10, 1893. The Paper is also printed in the _Official Report of the Conference_ (Leeds, 1894), pp. 46-60.

(135) _Village Sanitation in India._ A Paper for the Tropical Section of the 8th International Congress of Hygiene and Demography at Budapest. A pamphlet (without wrappers), pp. 8; signed "Florence Nightingale.

London: August 20th, 1894."

The "Memorandum" of 1892 (No. 122) was reprinted as an Appendix.

1895

(136) _Birds._ A letter, dated Feb. 4, 1895, to "Uncle Toby" of the d.i.c.ky Bird Society, printed in the _Newcastle Chronicle's_ Weekly Supplement, February 16.

1896

(137) "A Few Lines to Workhouse Nurses." A Supplement (pp. 53-57) to _Agnes Jones; or, She hath done what she could_. By Mrs. Roundell, London: Bickers & Sons, 1896.

A few sentences from Miss Nightingale's Supplement are reproduced in facsimile as a frontispiece to this little book.

(138) "Health Missioners for Rural India." An article in _India_, December 1896, pp. 359-360.

1897

(139) _To the Nurses and Probationers trained under the "Nightingale Fund," June 1897._ Octavo, pp. 17 (in plain white wrappers).

1898

(140) _A Letter from Florence Nightingale about the Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada._ A small pamphlet, in white paper wrappers, pp. 4.

The letter, to Lady Aberdeen, is dated May 5, 1898. It is stated at the end of the pamphlet, "The original of this letter is written entirely by Miss Florence Nightingale's own hand." There is no imprint.

1899

(141) The Soldier in War-time. Letter to the Balaclava Survivors, printed in the _Daily Graphic_, October 26, 1899.

This letter uses some of the phrases quoted at Vol. II. p. 411.

1900

(142) _To all our Nurses, May 28, 1900._ Lithographed, pp. 12.

Miss Nightingale's hand-writing in this letter shows little sign of age. It is bold and clear.

(143) _Letter to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh._ Printed at p. 26 of an official and ill.u.s.trated account, compiled by A. A. Gordon, of the _Edinburgh and East of Scotland Hospital for South Africa_ (Blackwood & Sons).

For the occasion of this letter, see Vol. II. p. 411.

1901