Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life; Nightingale's Work on India; Key to Editing; Introduction to Volume 9; The Royal Commission on India; Implementation of the Royal Commission's Recommendations; Famine Prevention and Irrigation; Sanitation and the Prevention of Epidemics; Nursing in India; Appendix A: Biographical Sketches; Appendix B: The War and India Offices; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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 interrela
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 997-1003) and index
