Florence Nightingale on health in India

Author(s)

• Vallée, Gérard
• McDonald, Lynn

Bibliographic Information

Florence Nightingale on health in India

Gérard Vallée, editor ; Lynn McDonald, general editor

（The collected works of Florence Nightingale, v. 9）

Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2006

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 997-1003) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.

Table of Contents

• Florence Nightingale: A Precis of Her Life
• Nightingale's Work on India
• The British Presence in India
• Nightingale's Interest in India
• Medicine and Nursing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: India and the West
• Major Collaborators in the India Work
• Introduction to Volume 9
• 'The Royal Commission on India
• Work on the Commission
• Observations by Miss Nightingale on the Evidence Contained in Stational Returns, 1863
• "How People May Live and Not Die in India", 1863
• Implementation of the Royal Commission's Recommendations
• Suggestions in Regard to Sanitary Works, 1864
• Defence of the Report
• Remarks on Dr Leith's Report, 1865
• Home and Presidencies' Sanitary Commissions
• Sir John Lawrence's Viceroyalty, 1865-69
• Lord Mayo's Viceroyalty
• Reorganisation of the Army Sanitary Commission
• Sanitary Conditions in Prisons
• Famine Prevention and Irrigation
• "Life or Death in India", 1873
• "Irrigation and Means of Transit in India", 1874
• "Irrigation and Water Transit in India", 1877
• "The Indian Famine", 1877
• "A Water Arrival in India", 1878
• "The People of India", 1878
• "Irrigation and Water Transit", 1879
• Sanitation and the Prevention of Epidemics
• "Letter to The Lancet", 1870
• "Letter on Sanitation", 1888
• Nursing in India
• "Suggestions on a System of Nursing for Hospitals in India", 1865
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA81028462
• ISBN:
  • 9780889204683
• Country Code: cn
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Waterloo, Ont.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 1024 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA56166169