[89] This Commission is referred to on later pages as “The Duke of Newcastle's.”
[90] Notes, sec. iii. pp. iii., ix.
[91] If any reader desires to be sickened, I recommend to him the Report on the Hospitals by the Sanitary Commissioners of 1855. And if any one desires to find painful details under some of these heads detailed above, without recourse to Blue-books, he may be referred to the report in Hansard of the speech made by Mr. Augustus Stafford (an eye-witness of what he described) in the House of Commons, Jan. 29, 1855.
[92] Roebuck Committee, Fifth Report, pp. 17, 19.
[93] Dean Stanley, Memorials of Edward and Catherine Stanley, 2nd ed., p. 335. So, too, Mr. Sidney Herbert, in his speech at Willis's Rooms on Nov. 29, 1855, referred to her as “a woman of genius.”
[94] Statement to Subscribers, p. vii.
[95] See Pincoffs, p. 79.
[96] Eastern Hospitals, vol. i. p. 71.
[97] Notes, p. 152.
[98] Stanmore, vol. i. p. 349.