Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 16

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ............................................................................. vii Dramatis Personae ............................................................................ ix List of Illustrations ............................................................................ x Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life ..................................... xi An Introduction to Volume 16 ......................................................... 1 The Need for Hospital Reform ........................................................ 9 The Pavilion Principle ..................................................................... 13 Nurses’ Working and Living Conditions ........................................... 18 Germ Theory, Contagion and Infection ........................................... 23 Chronology of Nightingale’s Work on Hospital Reform .................... 34 Key to Editing .................................................................................... 37 Notes on Hospitals Notes on Hospitals, 1st and 2nd editions 1858 and 1859 .................. 43 [Sixteen Sanitary Defects in the Construction of Hospital Wards] ....... 60 Note on the Hospital Plans .............................................................. 72 Notes on Hospitals, 3rd edition 1863 .................................................. 79 1. Sanitary Condition of Hospitals ................................................... 83 Note A. On the Mortality of Hospital Nurses ............................... 97 Note B. On the History of the Doctrine of Contagion ................. 99 Note C ........................................................................................ 100 2. Defects in Existing Hospital Plans and Construction .................... 101 Note. On the Proportion of Attendants to Sick in Different Classes of Hospitals ............................................. 122 3. Principles of Hospital Construction ............................................. 124 4. Improved Hospital Plans ............................................................. 148 5. Convalescent Hospitals ................................................................ 164 6. Children’s Hospitals .................................................................... 171 7. Indian Military Hospitals ............................................................. 178 8. Hospitals for Soldiers’ Wives and Children .................................. 195 9. Hospital Statistics ........................................................................ 196 B. Proposal for Improved Statistics of Surgical Operations ............... 210 / v Nomenclature of Operations ........................................................... 215 Appendix on Different Systems of Hospital Nursing ......................... 218 Distribution, Reviews and Response to Notes on Hospitals ................... 224 Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports ................. 233 Nightingale’s Articles on Netley ....................................................... 265 A Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army ........................ 333 Gordon Boys’ Home, 1885-90 .......................................................... 475 Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes .................................................... 497 List of Civil Hospitals on which Nightingale Advised ......................... 499 The Lisbon Children’s Hospital, 1859-60 .......................................... 524 Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1859-61 ..................................................... 532 ‘‘Hospital Statistics and Hospital Plans’’ ........................................... 560 ‘‘Winchester Infirmary,’’ Hampshire County Hospital, 1858-64 ......... 585 Midlands Hospitals, 1860-67 ............................................................. 621 Buckinghamshire Infirmary, Aylesbury, 1859-69 ............................... 638 Malta Civil Hospitals, 1862-65 .......................................................... 661 Swansea General Hospital, 1864-65 .................................................. 673 Derby Infirmary, 1864-69 ................................................................. 705 Workhouse Infirmaries, 1865-68 ....................................................... 721 Sydney Infirmary (Prince Alfred Hospital), 1866-69 and 1874 ........... 736 Convalescent and Cottage Hospitals, 1857-74 ................................... 754 St. Thomas’ Hospital, 1859-74 .......................................................... 775 Wellow School, 1872-74 ................................................................... 798 Children’s Hospitals, 1874-76 ........................................................... 803 Montreal General Hospital, 1874-76 ................................................. 809 Typhoid Epidemic in Bangor, 1882 .................................................. 835 St Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary Nurses’ Home Addition, 1882-83 ....... 840 Children’s Hospitals, 1879-81 ........................................................... 851 Convalescent and Cottage Hospitals, 1877-89 ................................... 864 Liverpool Royal Infirmary, 1882-85 .................................................. 873 Women’s Hospital, Euston Road, 1888 ............................................. 884 Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, 1888-89 ....................................... 891 ‘‘Hospitals’’ in Chambers’s Encyclopaedia, 1889-90 ................................ 908 Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, 1891-94 ................................................ 918 Metropolitan Fever Hospitals, 1893-95 ............................................. 927 Miscellaneous Last Work on Hospital Reform, from 1890 ................. 933 Appendix Appendix A: Biographical Sketches ................................................ 949 Bibliography ...................................................................................... 954 Index .................................................................................................. 962 vi / Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform ...