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was written by Sir John McNeill. Miss Nightingale's letter was
included, as an appendix, in an Indian Official Paper (Simla,
Aug. 29, 1866) (see Vol. II. p. 55).
(45) _Nursing Association for the Diocese of Lichfield_.... By E. J.
Edwards. London: Parker, 1865. A pamphlet, with letter from F. N. dated
April 13, 1865, on p. 1.
(46) _The Organization of Nursing in a Large Town_ (an account of the
Liverpool Nurses' Training School). With an Introduction, and Notes, by
Florence Nightingale. Liverpool, 1865. Octavo, pp. 103.
Miss Nightingale's Introduction occupies pp. 9-16. The book also
contains (pp. 25-26) a letter from her, dated November 30, 1861, on
the "Training and Employment of Women in Hospital, District, and
Private Nursing."
A Swedish translation, by Frau Engelskau, appeared at Stockholm in
1869.
(47) _Note on the Aboriginal Races of Australia: a Paper read at the
Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social
Science, held at York, September 1864._ London: Printed by Emily
Faithfull, 1865. A pamphlet without wrappers, pp. 8.
The "Note" had previously been printed in the _Transactions_ of the
National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1864,
pp. 552-558.
(48) _Death of Pastor Fliedner, of Kaiserswerth._ A quarto circular,
pp. 4; three letters, dated Oct. 21, Nov. 21, Dec. 10, 1864.
The last letter was an appeal for a Fund to support his widow and
children. The first two of the letters had already appeared in
_Evangelical Christendom_, New Series, vol. v. pp. 535-536 (November),
pp. 584-586 (December).
1867
(49) _Report of the Committee on Cubic Space of Metropolitan Workhouses
with Papers submitted to the Committee._ Blue-book, 1867. Paper xvi. is
Miss Nightingale's "Suggestions on the Subject of Providing, Training,
and Organizing Nurses for the Sick Poor in Workhouse Infirmaries," pp.
64-79 (dated Jan. 19, 1867).
For this Paper, see Vol. II. pp. 135-6. Miss Nightingale had copies of
it separately printed. Folio, pp. 16. Subsequently (1868) she issued
an abridgment of the Paper: _Method of Improving the Nursing Service
of Hospitals_. Folio, pp. 8 (some copies have an appendix, pp. 11).
Some of the contents were again printed in 1874.
(50) _Workhouse Nursing._ A letter to Mr. William Rathbone, dated Feb. 5,
1864, printed at pp. 4-6 of _Workhouse Nursing: the Story of a Successful
Experiment_. Macmillan, 1867.
For this letter, see Vol. II. p. 125.
1868
(51) "Una and the Lion." A paper in _Good Words_, June 1868, pp. 360-366.
An account of Miss Agnes Elizabeth Jones, "the pioneer of workhouse
nursing." It was reprinted, with some slight alterations, as
"Introduction" to _Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones, by her Sister_
(1871), a book which ran into many editions (5th, 1872). The use of
Miss Nightingale's Paper in that book was unauthorized, and she
objected to the Memorials as one-sided and morbid, and giving no true
account of Miss Jones's work. For this paper, see Vol. II. p. 140.
(52) _Memorandum on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India
up to the end of 1867; together with Abstracts of the Sanitary Reports
hitherto forwarded from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay._ Printed by the
order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1868.
The Memorandum consists of (1) a résumé of the Sanitary Question from
1859 to 1867; (2) dispatch from Sir Stafford Northcote of April 23,
1868; (3) a review of the situation. Of these, (1) was written by
F. N.; (2) was drafted by her, (3) was written by her (see Vol. II.
p. 154).
1869
(53) "A Note on Pauperism." An article in _Fraser's Magazine_, March
1869, pp. 281-290.
See Vol. II. p. 164.
(54) _Report on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India
during the year 1868 and up to the month of June 1869; together with
Abstracts_, etc. Blue-book.
The Introductory Memorandum, pp. 1-8, was mainly written by F. N.
(see Vol. II. p. 181).
1870
(55) Letter, dated May 25, 1870, to the Council of the _Bengal Social
Science Association_, on being elected an Honorary Member thereof.
Printed at pp. xiv., xv. of the _Transactions_ of the Association
(Calcutta, 1870).
On her Indian work for 11 years.
(56) _Indian Sanitation._ Printed at pp. 1-9 of the _Transactions_ of
the Bengal Social Science Association (Calcutta, 1870).
The address was sent with a covering letter, dated June 24, 1870.
A note by the President of the Association says: "Our
assistant-secretary, Babu Nilmoney Dey, has undertaken to translate
this noble address to the People of India into Bengali, and it shall
be the care of our Council to provide that, before the end of the
year, its wise and benevolent monitions shall have free means of
access to every native homestead, at least in this Presidency of
India."
(57) _Report on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India from
June 1869 to June 1870; together with Abstracts_, etc. Blue-book.
This includes two contributions by F. N., viz.:
"Paper on Sanitary Progress in India," contributed by request to the
Report, pp. 40-46. "Letter to the Bengal Social Science Association,"
dated June 1870. Reprinted at pp. 288-291 of the same Report (see
No. 56).
In the former of these Papers, Miss Nightingale criticized the
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