A woman's example, and a nation's work : a tribute to Florence Nightingale.

  • Edge, Frederick Milnes
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A woman's example, and a nation's work : a tribute to Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

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    but forwarded the very next day to the Secre- tary of War the following statement of powers requested and objects designed by the Com- mission. The Medical Bureau of the United States Army having asked for the appointment of a Sanitary Commission, in aid of its own overtasked energies, the Committee of the New York Delegation to the Government on Sanitary Affairs beg leave, at the request of the Medical Bureau, and as ex- planatory of its wishes, to state what precise fowers are sought by the proposed Commission, and what specific objects are aimed at. POWERS DEMANDED OF THE GOVERNMENT. The Commission being organized for the purposes only of inquiry and advice, asks for no legal powers, but only the ofl&cial recognition and moral countenance of the Govern- ment, which will be secured by its public appointment. It asks for a recommendatory order, addressed in its favour to all olhcers of the Government, to further its inquiries ; for permission to correspond aj;id confer, on a confidential footing, with the Medical Bureau and the War Department, proffer- ing such suggestions and counsels as its investigation and studies may, from time to time, prompt and enable it to offer. 2. The Commission seeks no pectmiary remtmerationjrom the Governvienf. Its motives being humane and patriotic, its labours will be its own reward. The assignment to them of a room in one of the public buildings, with stationery and other necessary conveniences, would meet their expectations in this direction. 3. The Commission asks leave to sit through the war, either in Washington, or when and where it may find it most convenient and useful; but it will disband should experience render its operations embarrassing to the Government, or less necessary and useful than it is now supposed they will prove.''
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