(49) Report of the Committee on Cubic Space of Metropolitan Workhouses with Papers submitted to the Committee. Blue-book, 1867. Paper xvi. is Miss Nightingale's “Suggestions on the Subject of Providing, Training, and Organizing Nurses for the Sick Poor in Workhouse Infirmaries,” pp. 64–79 (dated Jan. 19, 1867).
For this Paper, see Vol. II. pp. [135–6]. Miss Nightingale had copies of it separately printed. Folio, pp. 16. Subsequently (1868) she issued an abridgment of the Paper: Method of Improving the Nursing Service of Hospitals. Folio, pp. 8 (some copies have an appendix, pp. 11). Some of the contents were again printed in 1874.
(50) Workhouse Nursing. A letter to Mr. William Rathbone, dated Feb. 5, 1864, printed at pp. 4–6 of Workhouse Nursing: the Story of a Successful Experiment. Macmillan, 1867.
For this letter, see Vol. II. p. [125].
1868
(51) “Una and the Lion.” A paper in Good Words, June 1868, pp. 360–366.
An account of Miss Agnes Elizabeth Jones, “the pioneer of workhouse nursing.” It was reprinted, with some slight alterations, as “Introduction” to Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones, by her Sister (1871), a book which ran into many editions (5th, 1872). The use of Miss[446] Nightingale's Paper in that book was unauthorized, and she objected to the Memorials as one-sided and morbid, and giving no true account of Miss Jones's work. For this paper, see Vol. II. p. [140].
(52) Memorandum on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India up to the end of 1867; together with Abstracts of the Sanitary Reports hitherto forwarded from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay. Printed by the order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1868.
The Memorandum consists of (1) a résumé of the Sanitary Question from 1859 to 1867; (2) dispatch from Sir Stafford Northcote of April 23, 1868; (3) a review of the situation. Of these, (1) was written by F. N.; (2) was drafted by her, (3) was written by her (see Vol. II. p. [154]).