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List of Illustrations Postage stamps commemorating Nightingale’s Crimean War work, p viii. Key sites of the Crimean War, p xiv. Drying closet used by the hospital at Scutari, p 182. Nightingale letter to the family of a dead soldier from the Derby Mercury, p 438. Inscription on a Bible sent to Nightingale by an admirer, p 572. Original title page of Nightingale’s ‘‘confidential report,’’ p 574. Covering letter Nightingale sent with the confidential report, pp 973-74. Illustrations facing page 530 1. The council of war (June 1855) of the three army commanders. 2. Lady Canning and Dr (Sir) John Hall. 3. Lord Panmure and Sidney Herbert, secretaries for war. 4. Diagram of the mortality in the hospitals of Scutari and Koulali. 5. Nightingale’s classic charts, ‘‘Diagram of the causes of mortality.’’ 6. The sanitary commissioners, Dr Sutherland and Rawlinson. 7. Modified clock chart, from Nightingale’s classic rose charts. 8. Photographs of the Barrack Hospital, Scutari. x / ...

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