CONTENTS
| I | |
| PAGE | |
| At School—Determined to be a Nurse—Royal Red Cross instituted—Preliminary Training | [1] |
| II | |
| Visit to Tenerife—A Storm in the Bay—The Beauties of the Island | [3] |
| III | |
| Up the Cañadas—Voyage Home on a Cargo-boat—Call at Madeira | [8] |
| IV | |
| First Experiences in a Hospital—The Food—Some Medical Cases—My First "Special" Case | [14] |
| V | |
| Moved to a Surgical Ward—In Quarantine—A Poisoned Hand—"Kathleen" | [19] |
| VI | |
| In the Out-Patient Department—Food improved, and Heavy Workreduced—Act as Night Sister for two nights—Am offered apost as Staff Nurse—My first Certificate | [25] |
| VII | |
| To South Africa for a year—Voyage out on the Scot—By trainfrom Cape Town to Kimberley | [31] |
| VIII | |
| Life on the Diamond Fields—I meet Mr. Cecil Rhodes—The Kimberley Exhibition | [37] |
| IX | |
| A Visit to Cape Town—Up Table Mountain—Return to Kimberley | [42] |
| X | |
| On Circuit in Cape Colony—A Visit to Natal—The Doctor's Fee | [48] |
| XI | |
| East London and Port Elizabeth—Down a Diamond Mine (Kimberley)—Return to England | [54] |
| XII | |
| Accepted for training at a General Hospital—I begin in a Medical Ward—A sudden death | [60] |
| XIII | |
| On the Surgical side—A heavy "Take-in" week—Lectures on Physiology | [66] |
| XIV | |
| My first Typhoid Case—Diphtheria Tracheotomies—The Rescue of the Cat—On Night Duty | [71] |
| XV | |
| Christmas in Hospital—The Dispensing Examination—ActingAssistant Matron—Three Weeks on Duty in an Infirmary | [77] |
| XVI | |
| First Sister in the Front Surgery—A Bad Accident—A Dog with a Broken Leg | [83] |
| XVII | |
| Temporary Ward Sister—Appointed Night Sister—InterestingWork—Join the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses—Ispend Christmas warded as a Patient | [89] |
| XVIII | |
| Chloroform for a Cat—I Volunteer for Plague Duty (refused)—AppointedWard Sister—A Fire Alarm—A Holiday in Switzerland—A Bomb in Paris | [95] |
| XIX | |
| I go to Egypt—Nursing at Sea in rough weather—At Helouan—Rideout to the Pyramids—The Kasr-el-Aini | [102] |
| XX | |
| Up the Nile by Tourist Steamer—At Luxor—"Hare and Hounds" on Donkeys | [109] |
| XXI | |
| War in the Soudan—Night and Day Nursing | [115] |
| XXII | |
| Sent up to Assouan—Down the Nile on a Post Boat—A SaunterHome across the Continent | [120] |
| XXIII | |
| Back to my old Hospital—In a Ward for Women and Children—Christmasin a Men's Accident Ward | [126] |
| XXIV | |
| Scarlet Fever—At Marlborough House with R.N.P.F. Nurses | [132] |
| XXV | |
| The Boer War—A Lucky Meeting at the War Office—Joined theArmy Nursing Service Reserve—Choosing fittings, &c., fora Hospital of 100 beds | [137] |
| XXVI | |
| Voyage out on the Tantallon Castle—Some Military Hospitals nearCape Town—We land in Natal | [143] |
| XXVII | |
| Inoculated against Typhoid—We begin to build our Hospital—Increasedfrom 100 to 200 beds—Unpacking—A Hospital Ship at Durban | [149] |
| XXVIII | |
| Our Food Supplies—Washing Arrangements—Snakes and otherCreatures—A Railway Accident—Our First Patients | [156] |
| XXIX | |
| The Princess Christian Hospital Train brings us some Bad Cases—Menfrom Elandslaagte—Some Officer Patients—The Bishop of Pretoria | [162] |
| XXX | |
| Dengue Fever amongst the Staff—First Death amongst the OfficerPatients—Mafeking relieved—Our Hospital officially "Opened"—ColonelGalway—The Trappist Monastery | [169] |
| XXXI | |
| A Spion Kop hero—Orderlies knocking up with Enteric—Worstedwork, &c., to amuse the Convalescents—Death of an Orderlyfrom Enteric—Poem by Officer Patients | [175] |
| XXXII | |
| Some distinguished Visitors—We become a Military Hospital—NewOrderlies arrive—"Imperial Bearer Company" men—Our Major | [183] |
| XXXIII | |
| Changes on our Staff—The Arrival of Sick Convoys—Our Servants—TheHospital Commission—The Difficulties of Transport | [189] |
| XXXIV | |
| I visit the Battle-fields—At Colenso—Ladysmith—Up Spion Kop—TinTown Hospital—On a Red Cross Ambulance | [196] |
| XXXV | |
| The Tugela Falls—Pieter's Hill—Hart's Hill—Chieveley—MooiRiver—Maritzburg—Back at Pinetown | [203] |
| XXXVI | |
| Prisoners from Pretoria—Our Gardens—We start Poultry Keeping | [209] |
| XXXVII | |
| The Natal Volunteers return home—"John"—Flying Ants and other Plagues | [215] |
| XXXVIII | |
| The Buckjumper—The Excellence of the Boer Ponies—The Home for Lost Dogs! | [221] |
| XXXIX | |
| Sudden Orders for Home—Voyage with Lord Roberts on theCanada—Call at Cape Town—A Funeral at Sea | [228] |
| XL | |
| Lord and Lady Roberts visit the Hospital—Christmas at Sea—Weanchor off Cowes—Lord Roberts visits Queen Victoria atOsborne—Sixteen days' leave—Rejoin the Canada to returnto the Cape | [235] |
| XLI | |
| The Death of Queen Victoria—Lodgers at Wynberg—The Plagueat Cape Town—Up the Coast with Boer Prisoners | [242] |
| XLII | |
| Up Country—Under Canvas—The Sisters' Horses | [249] |
| XLIII | |
| Our Tent Flooded—A Cow shares my Tent—Night Duty in theRainy Season—Afternoon Duty | [256] |
| XLIV | |
| In Charge of Medical Tents—A Present from the Queen—WithinSound of the Guns—"Kit Inspection"—The Horrors ofTransport in the Ambulance Waggons | [263] |
| XLV | |
| A Sudden Collapse—The Winter Begins—Tired of the War | [270] |
| XLVI | |
| Night Duty again—A Sick Convoy arrives in the Night—A badPneumonia Case—Nearly Frozen | [277] |
| XLVII | |
| Mentioned in Despatches—Ill with Dysentery—A Night at Pinetown—Withmy Brother to Uitenhage | [283] |
| XLVIII | |
| At Port Elizabeth—Down the Coast to Mossel Bay—We drive, viaGeorge, to Oudtshoorn—Martial Law—Under escort to PrinceAlbert Road—By Train to Kimberley | [290] |
| XLIX | |
| Tales of the Siege—"Long Cecil"—Refugee Camps—A Picnic under Arms | [298] |
| L | |
| By Train to Cape Town—Night Sister on a Troopship—SomeSad Cases—Home Once More | [305] |
A NURSE'S LIFE IN WAR
AND PEACE