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The life of Florence Nightingale. Vol. II (1862-1910) / Sir Edward Cook.

  • Cook, Sir Edward Tyas, 1857-1919.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The life of Florence Nightingale. Vol. II (1862-1910) / Sir Edward Cook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The letter, dealing with irrigation as a preventive of famine, was reprinted as an appendix (pp. 25-30) to a pamphlet entitled The Madras Famine, by Sir A. Cotton. London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co. (83) In Memoriam. In remembrance of John Gerry. A small pamphlet, pp. 14, in mauve paper wrappers. Written and privately printed by F. N. John Gerry was a young footman who died of smallpox at Lea Hurst on July 17, 1877. Miss Nightingale was in the house at the time and had two trained nurses in attendance on him. (84) The Indian Famine. A letter to the Lord Mayor, enclosing a cheque for the Mansion House Relief Fund, printed in the Daily Telegraph, August 20. The letter would be worth its weight in gold to the Fund, said the Lord Mayor in acknowledging it. It was an earnest appeal for aid to the ryot, than whom there is not a more industrious being on the face of the earth. (85) Work in Brighton ; or, Woman's Mission to Women. By the Author of Active Service, Work among the Lost, etc. [Ellice Hop- kins]. With a Preface by Florence Nightingale. Ninth Thousand. London: Hatchards, 1877. The Preface, dated October 1877, occupies pp. iii., iv., and is an earnest appeal for Rescue Work. (86) Lettre sur le devoir des Femmes de prendre une part active a I'auvre du relevement de la moralite publique, et considerations sur les resultats sanitaires de la reglementation dans I'Inde Anglaise. Read at a Congress in Geneva in the autumn of 1877. I have not been able to trace where it was printed. (87) A Letter to the Nurses of the Edinburgh Infirmary, dated New Year's Eve, 7 a.m. Quarto, pp. 3. 1878 (88) Letter to the Matron, Home Sister, and Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital. Quarto, pp. 14. Lithographed. Dated New Year's Day, 7 a.m., 1878. This took the place of the usual address. (89) Who is the Savage ? An article in Social Notes (edited by S. C. Hall), May 11, 1878, vol. i. No. 10, pp. 145-147. A description of life in the slums of a great city—suggesting an extension of Miss Octavia Hill's work, coffee-houses, co-operative stores, and rescue work. The MS. of this paper was offered for sale by an Edinburgh bookseller in 1913. (90) The United Empire and the Indian Peasant. An article in the Journal of the National Indian Association, June 1878, pp. 232- 245- (91) St. Thomas's Hospital. Memorandum for Probationers as to Finger Poisoning, etc. A fly-sheet, pp. 4. Dated July 1878. Drawn up by F. N. in consultation doubtless with the medical officers.