Florence Nightingale on Health in India

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Title Page, Copyright

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Contents

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pp. v-vi

Acknowledgments

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pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments are due to a large number of individuals and organizations for assistance on this volume, and even more for assistance at earlier stages in the Collected Works project. First of all acknowledgments are due to the Henry Bonham Carter Will Trust for permission to publish Nightingale original manuscripts, ...

Dramatis Personae

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pp. ix-

List of Illustrations

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pp. x-

Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life

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pp. xi-xiii

Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, 1820, the second daughter of wealthy English parents taking an extended European wedding trip. She was raised in England at country homes, Lea Hurst, in Derbyshire, and Embley, in Hampshire. She was educated largely by her father, who had studied classics ...

Nightingale’s Work on India

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pp. 1-36

Florence Nightingale devoted some forty years of her life to bringing about a number of reforms to improve public health and the condition of life of the people of India. Initially her focus was on British soldiers serving there, but increasingly she worked at promoting the health and well-being of Indian nationals. ...

Key to Editing

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pp. 37-40

All the manuscript material in the Collected Works has been carefully transcribed and verified (for a description of the process of obtaining and processing this information see "Research Methods and Sources," Appendix E in Life and Family. Illegible words and passages are so indicated, ...

Introduction to Volume 9

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pp. 41-44

The material of the present volume documents Nightingale’s efforts to improve the sanitary conditions of soldiers and civilians in India, and identifies the issues she was confronted with in her work. It is presented thematically. It begins with the planning for and the formation of the Royal Commission ...

The Royal Commission on India

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pp. 45-214

Nightingale’s "India work" properly began at the time of the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India (1859-63), but already in 1857 she was hoping to extend the inquiry into the conditions of the Home Army to the army’s situation in India. As soon as the work of the first royal commission ...

Implementation of the Royal Commission’s Recommendations

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pp. 215-702

The Indian royal commission’s report, signed by the commission’s members 19 May 1863 and by Lord Stanley, Lord de Grey and Sir Charles Wood in June, was issued 8 July. The first task toward its implementation was to set in motion the War Of fice and the India Office work in London while securing the cooperation ...

Famine Prevention and Irrigation

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pp. 703-860

The implementation of the recommendations of the royal commission on India, especially through the newly created sanitary commissions, did result in improved health and reduced mortality for the British Army in India. As we have seen, Nightingale next took on the health of civilians, and considerable ...

Sanitation and the Prevention of Epidemics

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pp. 861-938

Epidemics and infectious diseases, in addition to being recur rent phenomena in India, were, to the eyes of outsiders, endured by the local population with resignation and often with a sense of fatalism. Much work was required of the ‘‘sanitarians’’ to lift the veil of fatalism from over such calamities as cholera, ...

Nursing in India

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pp. 939-982

By 1864 Nightingale had become a recognized authority in matters of nursing and in the training of nurses. She had acquired much experience in the Crimean War (1854-56), written on nursing in military hospitals, written on hospitals (military and civil), opened a nurses’ training school at St Thomas’ Hospital, ...

Appendix A: Biographical Sketches

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pp. 983-992

Edward Henry Stanley¹ received his degree from Cambridge University and travelled in 1848 to the West Indies, Canada and the United States. During his absence he was elected (Conser vative) member of Parliament for King’s Lynn, which he represented until 1869. This was the beginning of a long career ...

Appendix B: The War and India Offices

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pp. 993-996

The War Office was established in 1661 to impose civilian control over military affairs. Until 1855 it was run by a "secretary at war," a junior minister, under a "secretary for war," the senior minister. Duties were variously distributed between the army and civilians. The commander-in- chief and his staff ...

Bibliography

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pp. 997-1003

Index

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pp. 1004-1024