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Contents Acknowledgments ............................................................................. vii Dramatis Personae ............................................................................ ix List of Illustrations ............................................................................ x Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works .................... xi Introduction to Volume 6 ................................................................. 1 Public Health Care as a System ........................................................ 6 Key to Editing .................................................................................... 13 Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes ........................................ 17 Editor’s Introduction ....................................................................... 17 Preface ............................................................................................ 30 Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not ............................... 30 Chapter 1 Ventilation and Warming ............................................ 34 Chapter 2 Health of Houses ........................................................ 48 Chapter 3 Petty Management ...................................................... 63 Chapter 4 Noise .......................................................................... 70 Chapter 5 Variety ........................................................................ 82 Chapter 6 Taking Food ............................................................... 86 Chapter 7 What Food? ................................................................ 91 Chapter 8 Bed and Bedding ........................................................ 98 Chapter 9 Light .......................................................................... 103 Chapter 10 Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls ................................... 105 Chapter 11 Personal Cleanliness ................................................... 110 Chapter 12 Chattering Hopes and Advices ..................................... 113 Chapter 13 Observation of the Sick ............................................... 122 Chapter 14 Convalescence ............................................................ 139 Chapter 15 What Is a Nurse? ......................................................... 141 Chapter 16 ‘‘Minding Baby’’ ......................................................... 146 Conclusion ...................................................................................... 151 Note Upon Employment of Women ................................................. 158 Appendix ........................................................................................ 160 Revisions for a Proposed 1875 Edition .............................................. 161 / v Colonial Sanitary Statistics and Aboriginal Depopulation ............. 163 ‘‘Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals’’ ........... 168 ‘‘Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing’’ ................................................ 203 The Reform of Workhouse Infirmaries Workhouse Infirmaries in Nightingale’s Day .................................. 223 The Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary .............................................. 231 The Appointment of Agnes Jones as Superintendent ........................ 240 Death of and Memorials to Agnes Jones ........................................... 278 Later Superintendents and Difficulties ............................................. 309 The Extension of Workhouse Nursing to Metropolitan London .... 326 Brief to the Cubic Space Comittee ................................................... 353 Training Pauper Girls to Become Workhouse Nurses ........................ 391 The Metropolitan Poor Bill of 1867 .................................................. 394 Workhouse Infirmary for St Pancras, Highgate ................................. 428 Training School for Workhouse Nurses ............................................ 452 Other Workhouse Infirmaries .......................................................... 465 The Extension of Nursing to Workhouse Infirmaries in Ireland .... 490 Public Health Issues, Rural Health and Nightingale’s ‘‘Caseload’’ Nature, Disease, Germs and Contagion .......................................... 509 Rural Health ...................................................................................... 580 ‘‘Rural Hygiene’’ ............................................................................. 607 Medical Care of Employees, Former Employees and Tenants ....... 623 Appendix Appendix: Biographical Sketches .................................................... 674 (Dr) John Sutherland (1808-91) ...................................................... 674 William Rathbone (1802-1902) ........................................................ 677 Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832-68) ...................................................... 678 Bibliography ...................................................................................... 679 Index .................................................................................................. 685 vi / Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care ...