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The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Sir Edward Tyas Cook

CHAPTER VI

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LORD RIPON AND GENERAL GORDON (1880-1885) Death of Miss Nightingale's mother--Illness--Visits to the seaside and Claydon. II. The elections of 1880--Her special preoccupations and general work at this period--Visit to St. Thomas's Hospital. III. Friendship with General Gordon and his cousin, Mrs. Hawthorn--Inquiry into nursing by Orderlies in military hospitals--Letters from General Gordon. IV. Lord Ripon's Indian policy--Miss Nightingale's enthusiasm--Her efforts to support Lord Ripon--Interviews with Indian officials and politicians--Her interest in Indian agriculture and education--The Indian Civil servants at Oxford: suggestions to Arnold Toynbee--Her paper on Lord Ripon's Bengal Land Tenure Bill. V. The Egyptian campaign of 1882--Miss Nightingale and the return of the Guards--Her appearances in public--Defects in hospital arrangements in South Africa and Egypt (1880-82)--Miss Nightingale's representations--Committee of Inquiry--Miss Nightingale and Lord Wantage. VI. Royal Red Cross conferred on her (1883)--Correspondence with the Queen--The Ilbert Bill--The hospital corps--Reforms in accordance with the Committee's recommendations--Lord Wolseley and the female nurses. VII. Progress of Lord Ripon's reforms--His resignation--Miss Nightingale's interview with his successor, Lord Dufferin--Mr. Gladstone and India--Lord Ripon's return. VIII. The Soudan expedition--Miss Nightingale and the war nurses--Reminiscences of Sister Philippa--Letters to Miss Williams--Miss Nightingale's meditations--Death of old friends 323
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1. Chapter 1 2. PART V 3. CHAPTER I 4. CHAPTER II 5. CHAPTER III 6. CHAPTER IV 7. CHAPTER V 8. CHAPTER VI 9. PART VI 10. CHAPTER I 11. CHAPTER II 12. CHAPTER III 13. CHAPTER IV 14. PART VII 15. CHAPTER I 16. CHAPTER II 17. CHAPTER III 18. CHAPTER IV 19. CHAPTER V 20. CHAPTER VI 21. CHAPTER VII 22. CHAPTER VIII 23. CHAPTER IX 24. PART V 25. CHAPTER I 26. CHAPTER II 27. CHAPTER III 28. 1000. The rate in 1911 was, as already stated, 5.04. 29. CHAPTER IV 30. 1864. Miss Nightingale's good offices were asked by the War Office 31. CHAPTER V 32. CHAPTER VI 33. introduction to new masters at the India Office and the Poor Law 34. 25. You owe me no apology for calling my attention to material 35. PART VI 36. CHAPTER I 37. CHAPTER II 38. CHAPTER III 39. CHAPTER IV 40. PART VII 41. CHAPTER I 42. Introduction dwells too much on the _form_ of the _Gorgias_ and does 43. CHAPTER II 44. CHAPTER III 45. 1895. "Nearly 600 nurses completed their probationary course under 46. CHAPTER IV 47. 1878. Sir James Knowles's magazine was then in the early days of its 48. CHAPTER V 49. 1869. She was one of the many women who revered the name of Florence 50. CHAPTER VI 51. CHAPTER VII 52. CHAPTER VIII 53. CHAPTER IX 54. 1893. Thirty-nine years ago arrival at Scutari. The immense blessings I 55. 1851. Octavo, paper wrappers, pp. 32. 56. Introduction par M. Daremberg._ Paris: Didier. Crown 8vo, 57. Introduction (as is shown by a MS. amongst Miss Nightingale's Papers) 58. introduction of conflicting disease-theories into sanitary reports, 59. 1872. Contributed by request to the _Report on Measures adopted for 60. Part II. Ch. VIII. Miss N. was denounced as "a semi-Romish Nun," an 61. Chapter vii., "The Providence of the Barrack Hospital," gives an 62. Chapter vii. gives a full account of the mission of the Bermondsey 63. Chapter xi. is mainly devoted to an account of "The Lady-in-Chief"

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