The Life of Florence Nightingale Volume II Part 34

(104) _Letter from Florence Nightingale, May 6, 1881_ [to the Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital]. Lithographed, pp. 16.

1882

(105) "Hints and Suggestions on Thrift." A paper printed in a monthly journal ent.i.tled _Thrift_, January 1882, p. 4.

(106) _Training of Nurses_ and _Nursing the Sick_. Articles occupying pp. 1038-1043, 1043-1049 of _Quain's Dictionary of Medicine_.

Copies of Miss Nightingale's article were separately struck off, as a pamphlet (without wrapper), pp. 12. In later editions of the Dictionary the articles were revised by Florence Nightingale Boyd.

Extracts from the original articles were printed on a card for use in the Salisbury Infirmary, 1902.

(107) _"Infection." By Sir J. Clarke Jervoise, Bart., with Remarks by Miss Nightingale._ Second edition. London: Vacher & Sons, 1882.

Pamphlet, in blue paper wrappers, pp. 63.

Miss Nightingale's "remarks," at pp. 62, 63, were on the first edition of the pamphlet (published anonymously in 1867). They are an attack on "the germ hypothesis."

1883

(108) _From Florence Nightingale to the Probationer-Nurses in the "Nightingale Fund" Training School at St. Thomas's Hospital and to the Nurses who were formerly trained there._ May 23, 1883. Lithographed, pp. 13.

(109) _The Dumb shall speak, and the Deaf shall hear; or, the Ryot, the Zemindar, and the Government._ A Paper read at a meeting of the East India a.s.sociation, and printed in its _Journal_, July 1883, pp. 163-211.

The paper was read by Mr. F. Verney, Sir Bartle Frere in the chair, on June 1. It was reprinted separately in the same year by the a.s.sociation as a pamphlet (without wrapper, pp. 48).

(110) "Our Indian Stewardship." An article in the _Nineteenth Century_, August 1883, pp. 329-338.

A defence of Lord Ripon's policy. The article was largely the work of Sir William Wedderburn. "The article is an excellent one," she wrote to him (Aug. 1), "if only it had been signed by you, and not by me."

(111) "The Bengal Tenancy Bill." An article in the _Contemporary Review_, October 1883, pp. 587-602.

1884

(112) _Letter to the Nightingale Probationers_, dated July 3, 1884.

Printed in the _Report of the Nightingale Fund for the year 1883_, which at p. 3 gave a report of the Annual Meeting (Lord Houghton in the chair) whereat the letter was read.

1886

(113) _To the Probationer-Nurses of the Nightingale Fund School at St.

Thomas's Hospital. Florence Nightingale. New Year's Day, 1886._ (_For Private Use only._) Small pamphlet (cream paper wrappers), pp. 16.

(114) _Florence Nightingale to Surgeon-Major G. J. H. Evatt._ A fly-leaf, so ent.i.tled, printed in connection with the "Woolwich Election, 1886."

The letter, dated June 24, 1886, commends the candidature of Surgeon-Major Evatt on the ground of his administrative experience and energy in "vital matters of social, sanitary, and general interest."

He stood as a Liberal and was not elected.

1887

(115) _Village Sanitation in India._ A letter, dated February 22, 1887, to the Joint Secretaries of the Bombay Presidency a.s.sociation. Quarto, pp. 3.

A similar letter was addressed to the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha.

(116) _Note sull' a.s.sistenza ai Malati di Miss Nightingale Tradotto e Abbreviate da A. C._ [_Comparetti_]. Lucca: Topografia Giusti, 1887.

1888

(117) _To the Probationer-Nurses in the Nightingale Fund School at St.

Thomas's Hospital from Florence Nightingale, May 16, 1888. For Private Use only._ Lithographed, pp. 20 (with yellow wrappers).

(118) _Sanitation in India._ "Letter from Miss Nightingale," dated "London, July 27, 1888," published in the _Journal of the Public Health Society_ [of Calcutta], October 1888, vol. iv. pp. 63-65.

1889

(119) _Village Sanitation in India._ A letter, dated February 20, 1889, to the Joint Secretaries of the Bombay Presidency a.s.sociation. Quarto, pp. 3.

The same letter, similarly printed, was also addressed "To the Joint Secretaries of the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha." The letter was for the most part a critical exposition of the Bombay Village Sanitation Bill; it was noticed in the _Bombay Gazette Summary_, April 5, 1889.

1890

(120) _Sketch of the History and Progress of District Nursing. By William Rathbone. With an Introduction by Florence Nightingale._ Dedicated by permission to Her Majesty. London: Macmillan, 1890.

The Introduction occupies pp. ix.-xxii.

1891

(121) Message to Nurses at Liverpool. Printed at p. 11 of the _Sixty-third Annual Report of the Royal Southern Hospital_. Liverpool: 1904.

The message was sent in February 1891 on the occasion of the opening of the Nursing Home. One of the wards of the Hospital is named after Miss Nightingale.

(122) _Sanitation in India._ A letter, dated February 16, 1891, to the Joint Secretaries of the Bombay Presidency a.s.sociation. Quarto, pp. 3.

The same letter was also addressed to the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha.

(123) _Sanitation in India._ A letter, dated December 1891, to Rao Bahadur Vishnu Moreshwar Bhide, Chairman, Poona Sarvajanik Sabha.

Quarto, pp. 3.

These open letters, intended for "distribution to local a.s.sociations and influential Indian gentlemen," attracted much notice in the Indian press. A selection of press comments upon them was printed in the _Indian Spectator_, July 10, 1892. There was also a notice of No. 121 in the _Times_ of January 10, 1892, in the weekly review of "Indian Affairs" by Sir W. W. Hunter. "Miss Nightingale's letter forms," he said, "a brief, but practical code of village sanitation."

1892