Volume 9: Florence Nightingale on Health in India is the first of two volumes reporting Nightingale’s forty years of work to improve public health in India. It begins with her work to establish the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, for which she drafted questionnaires, analyzed returns, and did much of the final writing, going on to promote the implementation of its recommendations. In this volume a gradual shift of attention can be seen from the health of the army to that of the civilian population. Famine and epidemics were frequent and closely interrelated occurrences. To combat them, Nightingale recommended a comprehensive set of sanitary measures, and educational and legal reforms, to be overseen by a public health agency. Skilful in implementing the expertise, influence, and power of others, she worked with her impressive network of well-placed collaborators, having them send her information and meet with her back in London. The volume includes Nightingale’s work on the royal commission itself, related correspondence, numerous published pamphlets, articles and letters to the editor, and correspondence with her growing network of viceroys, governors of presidencies, and public health experts. Working with British collaborators, she began this work; over time Nightingale increased her contact with Indian nationals and promoted their work and associations.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Dramatis Personae 10
- List of Illustrations 11
- Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life 12
- Nightingale’s Work on India 18
- The British Presence in India 19
- Nightingale’s Interest in India 24
- Medicine and Nursing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century—India and the West 34
- Major Collaborators in the India Work 39
- Key to Editing 54
- Introduction to Volume 9 58
- The Royal Commission on India 62
- Work on the Commission 107
- Observations by Miss Nightingale on the Evidence Contained in Stational Returns, 1863 147
- ‘‘How People May Live and Not Die in India,’’ 1863 200
- Implementation of the Royal Commission’s Recommendations 232
- Suggestions in Regard to Sanitary Works, 1864 317
- Defence of the Report 403
- Remarks on Dr Leith’s Report, 1865 419
- Home and Presidencies’ Sanitary Commissions 444
- Sir John Lawrence’s Viceroyalty, 1865-69 529
- Lord Mayo’s Viceroyalty 661
- Reorganization of the Army Sanitary Commission 674
- Sanitary Conditions in Prisons 719
- Famine Prevention and Irrigation 728
- ‘‘Life or Death in India,’’ 1873 735
- ‘‘Irrigation and Means of Transit in India,’’ 1874 776
- ‘‘Irrigation and Water Transit in India,’’ 1877 786
- ‘‘The Indian Famine,’’ 1877 793
- ‘‘A Water Arrival in India,’’ 1878 796
- ‘‘The People of India,’’ 1878 802
- ‘‘Irrigation and Water Transit,’’ 1879 868
- Sanitation and the Prevention of Epidemics 886
- ‘‘Letter to The Lancet,’’ 1870 941
- ‘‘Letter on Sanitation,’’ 1888 960
- Nursing in India 964
- ‘‘Suggestions on a System of Nursing for Hospitals in India,’’ 1865 973
- Appendix A: Biographical Sketches 1008
- Lord Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-93) 1008
- Sir John Lawrence (1811-79) 1009
- Sir Bartle Frere (1815-84) 1011
- Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan (1807-86) 1013
- Sir James Ranald Martin (1793-1874) 1013
- Sir John Strachey (1823-1907) 1014
- Dr James Pattison Walker (1823-1906) 1015
- Dr Thomas Gillham Hewlett (1832-89) 1016
- Appendix B: The War and India Offices 1018
- The War Office 1018
- The India Office 1020
- Bibliography 1022
- Index 1029
- A 1029
- B 1030
- C 1031
- D 1033
- E 1034
- F 1035
- G 1036
- H 1037
- I 1039
- J 1040
- K 1040
- L 1040
- M 1041
- N 1042
- O 1043
- P 1043
- Q 1044
- R 1044
- S 1045
- T 1047
- U 1048
- V 1048
- W 1048
- Y 1049
- Z 1049
