Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 9

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ............................................................................. vii Dramatis Personae ............................................................................ ix List of Illustrations ............................................................................ x Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life ..................................... xi Nightingale’s Work on India ............................................................ 1 The British Presence in India ........................................................... 2 Nightingale’s Interest in India ......................................................... 7 Medicine and Nursing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century— India and the West ...................................................................... 17 Major Collaborators in the India Work ............................................. 22 Key to Editing .................................................................................... 37 Introduction to Volume 9 ................................................................. 41 The Royal Commission on India ..................................................... 45 Work on the Commission ................................................................ 90 Observations by Miss Nightingale on the Evidence Contained in Stational Returns, 1863 ................................................................. 130 ‘‘How People May Live and Not Die in India,’’ 1863 ......................... 183 Implementation of the Royal Commission’s Recommendations .. 215 Suggestions in Regard to Sanitary Works, 1864 ....................................... 300 Defence of the Report ..................................................................... 386 Remarks on Dr Leith’s Report, 1865 ...................................................... 402 Home and Presidencies’ Sanitary Commissions ................................ 427 Sir John Lawrence’s Viceroyalty, 1865-69 .......................................... 504 Lord Mayo’s Viceroyalty ................................................................... 636 Reorganization of the Army Sanitary Commission ............................ 649 Sanitary Conditions in Prisons ......................................................... 694 / v Famine Prevention and Irrigation ................................................... 703 ‘‘Life or Death in India,’’ 1873 ......................................................... 710 ‘‘Irrigation and Means of Transit in India,’’ 1874 .............................. 751 ‘‘Irrigation and Water Transit in India,’’ 1877 ................................... 761 ‘‘The Indian Famine,’’ 1877 ............................................................. 768 ‘‘A Water Arrival in India,’’ 1878 ...................................................... 771 ‘‘The People of India,’’ 1878 ............................................................ 777 ‘‘Irrigation and Water Transit,’’ 1879 ............................................... 843 Sanitation and the Prevention of Epidemics .................................. 861 ‘‘Letter to The Lancet,’’ 1870 ............................................................. 916 ‘‘Letter on Sanitation,’’ 1888 ............................................................ 935 Nursing in India ................................................................................ 939 ‘‘Suggestions on a System of Nursing for Hospitals in India,’’ 1865 ........................................................................... 948 Appendix A: Biographical Sketches ................................................ 983 Lord Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-93) ....................................... 983 Sir John Lawrence (1811-79) ........................................................... 984 Sir Bartle Frere (1815-84) ................................................................ 986 Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan (1807-86) ........................................... 988 Sir James Ranald Martin (1793-1874) ............................................... 988 Sir John Strachey (1823-1907) .......................................................... 989 Dr James Pattison Walker (1823-1906) .............................................. 990 Dr Thomas Gillham Hewlett (1832-89) ............................................ 991 Appendix B: The War and India Offices ......................................... 993 The War Office ................................................................................ 993 The India Office .............................................................................. 995 Bibliography ...................................................................................... 997 Index .................................................................................................. 1004 vi / Florence Nightingale on Health in India ...