This sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale’s considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease prevention. It follows directly from her understanding of social science and broader social reform activities, which were related in Society and Politics (Volume 5). Public Health Care includes a critical edition of Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes, papers on mortality in aboriginal schools and hospitals, and on rural health. It reports much unknown material on Nightingale’s signal contribution of bringing professional nursing into the dreaded workhouse infirmaries. This collection presents letters and notes on a wide range of issues from specific diseases to germ theory, and relates some of her own extensive work as a nurse practitioner, which included organizing referrals to doctors and providing related care.
Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.
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- Includes bibliographical references: p. 680-684
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- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- A2 2001 v. 6eb
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Dramatis Personae 10
- List of Illustrations 11
- Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works 12
- Introduction to Volume 6 16
- Public Health Care as a System 21
- Key to Editing 28
- Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes 32
- Editor’s Introduction 32
- Preface 45
- Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not 45
- Chapter 1 Ventilation and Warming 49
- Chapter 2 Health of Houses 63
- Chapter 3 Petty Management 78
- Chapter 4 Noise 85
- Chapter 5 Variety 97
- Chapter 6 Taking Food 101
- Chapter 7 What Food? 106
- Chapter 8 Bed and Bedding 113
- Chapter 9 Light 118
- Chapter 10 Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls 120
- Chapter 11 Personal Cleanliness 125
- Chapter 12 Chattering Hopes and Advices 128
- Chapter 13 Observation of the Sick 137
- Chapter 14 Convalescence 154
- Chapter 15 What Is a Nurse? 156
- Chapter 16 ‘‘Minding Baby’’ 161
- Conclusion 166
- Note Upon Employment of Women 173
- Appendix 175
- Revisions for a Proposed 1875 Edition 176
- Colonial Sanitary Statistics and Aboriginal Depopulation 178
- ‘‘Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals’’ 183
- ‘‘Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing’’ 218
- The Reform of Workhouse Infirmaries 236
- Workhouse Infirmaries in Nightingale’s Day 238
- The Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary 246
- The Appointment of Agnes Jones as Superintendent 255
- Death of and Memorials to Agnes Jones 293
- Later Superintendents and Difficulties 324
- The Extension of Workhouse Nursing to Metropolitan London 341
- Brief to the Cubic Space Comittee 368
- Training Pauper Girls to Become Workhouse Nurses 414
- The Metropolitan Poor Bill of 1867 417
- Workhouse Infirmary for St Pancras, Highgate 451
- Training School for Workhouse Nurses 475
- Other Workhouse Infirmaries 488
- The Extension of Nursing to Workhouse Infirmaries in Ireland 513
- Public Health Issues, Rural Health and Nightingale’s ‘‘Caseload’’ 530
- Nature, Disease, Germs and Contagion 532
- Rural Health 603
- ‘‘Rural Hygiene’’ 630
- Medical Care of Employees, Former Employees and Tenants 646
- Appendix 696
- Appendix: Biographical Sketches 697
- (Dr) John Sutherland (1808-91) 697
- William Rathbone (1802-1902) 700
- Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832-68) 701
- Bibliography 702
- Index 709
- A 709
- B 710
- C 710
- D 712
- E 713
- F 713
- G 714
- H 714
- I 715
- J 716
- K 716
- L 716
- M 717
- N 718
- O 718
- P 719
- Q 720
- R 720
- S 720
- T 723
- U 723
- V 723
- W 723
- Y 724
- Z 724
