This edition comprised (1) the two Papers (rewritten) of the first edition (but not the evidence to the Royal Commission of 1857); (2) new chapters on Improved Hospital Plans, Convalescent Hospitals, Children's Hospitals, Indian Military Hospitals, Hospitals for Soldiers' Wives; (3) Hospital Statistics, A. General Statistics, B. Proposal for Improved Statistics of Surgical Operations; (4) an appendix “On Different Systems of Hospital Nursing.”
Of these contents, (3) A. was substantially a reprint of No. 27; and (3) B. of No. 35.
Of (4) a separate edition, slightly altered, was issued (see No. 38).
The publication of this third edition led to a lively discussion in the medical press. The Lancet approved of Miss Nightingale's statistical method (Feb. 27, 1864). The Medical Times (Jan. 30) strongly attacked it. Dr. Farr defended it (Feb. 13), and a correspondence ensued for some weeks which was as heated as professional disputes generally are. The reviews in the general press were very numerous.
(38) Note on Different Systems of Nursing. A pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 5 (printed by Harrison & Sons).
This is reprinted, slight alterations, from the appendix in the third edition of Notes on Hospitals.
(39) Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1863, containing two Papers by F. N.: (1) Sanitary
Statistics of Colonial Schools, pp. 475–488 (discussion on the paper, p. 557). (2) How Men may live and not die in India, pp. 501–510 (discussion, pp. 557–558).
For the reprint of (1), see No. 40; of (2), No. 41.
(40) Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals. By Florence Nightingale. London: 1863. A pamphlet (lilac-coloured paper wrappers), pp. 67.