[278] England and her Soldiers, by Harriet Martineau, 1859. Miss Nightingale's “coxcomb” diagrams were reproduced in this volume. She revised Miss Martineau's MS., supplemented the publisher's fee to the author, and bought £20 worth of the book for presentation to reading-rooms.
[279] For its appointment, see below, p. [405]; and for the successive Committees, etc., in connection with barracks, see the Index, Vol. II. (under [Barrack]).
[280] See above, p. [331]. The School of Cookery at Aldershot is mentioned in the General Report of the Barracks Commission, 1861, p. 114 n.
[281] The Committee on Army Medical Statistics (Mr. Herbert, Sir A. Tulloch, and Dr. Farr) reported in June 1858, and its Report was printed in 1861. In the same year the First Annual Statistical Report on the Health of the Army (issued in March) was printed; it was compiled by Dr. T. Graham Balfour, who was appointed head of the statistical branch of the Army Medical Department.
[282] The story of them may be read in Stanmore, vol. ii. pp. 364–8.
[283] Stanmore, vol. ii. p. 367.
[284] Sir William Aitken (1825–1892), M.D. of Edinburgh; assistant-pathologist to a medical commission during the Crimean War; F.R.S. 1873; knighted, 1887. He held the professorship from 1860 till the year of his death.
[285] Introductory Address at Fort Pitt, Chatham, October 2, 1860, by Deputy-Inspector-General T. Longmore, p. 7.
[286] Introduction, p. 20, to a new edition (1860) of Andrew Combe's Management of Infancy.
[287] It should perhaps be explained that venereal cases are treated in a separate hospital.