The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Sir Edward Tyas Cook
CHAPTER IV
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ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE WAR OFFICE
(1862-1866)
Miss Nightingale and the War Office: her position as consultant.
Explanation of the position--Her expert authority on certain
questions--Official legatee of Sidney Herbert--Correspondence with
Sir George Lewis--Her friends at the War Office. II. Death of the
permanent under-secretary--Miss Nightingale and Captain Galton's
appointment--Her hopes of re-organization in the War Office.
III. The Army Sanitary Commission--Miss Nightingale and
improvements in barracks--Nursing in military hospitals. IV. The
Army Medical School, and position of army doctors--Miss Nightingale
as the doctors' champion--Lord Panmure's attack on the Herbert
Hospital--Miss Nightingale's case for the defence. V. Wide range of
subjects referred to her advice--The Geneva Convention (1864)--
Suggestions about soldiers' and sailors' pay--Miss Nightingale's
methods. VI. The State regulation of vice--Miss Nightingale's
efforts on behalf of soldiers' clubs, recreation-rooms, etc. VII.
Her researches into the disappearance of aboriginal races. VIII.
Spiritual comfort--Memories of heroism in the Crimea 59
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