The message was sent in February 1891 on the occasion of the opening of the Nursing Home. One of the wards of the Hospital is named after Miss Nightingale.
(122) Sanitation in India. A letter, dated February 16, 1891, to the Joint Secretaries of the Bombay Presidency Association. Quarto, pp. 3.
The same letter was also addressed to the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha.
(123) Sanitation in India. A letter, dated December 1891, to Rao Bahadur Vishnu Moreshwar Bhide, Chairman, Poona Sarvajanik Sabha. Quarto, pp. 3.
These open letters, intended for “distribution to local associations and influential Indian gentlemen,” attracted much notice in the Indian press. A selection of press comments upon them was printed in the Indian Spectator, July 10, 1892. There was also a notice of No. 121[455] in the Times of January 10, 1892, in the weekly review of “Indian Affairs” by Sir W. W. Hunter. “Miss Nightingale's letter forms,” he said, “a brief, but practical code of village sanitation.”
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(124) Village Sanitation in India. Letter from Miss Nightingale to the Secretary of State for India (Lord Cross), dated March 1892, enclosing a Memorandum signed by members of the India Committee of the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography (1891). Printed in India, July 15, 1892, pp. 200.
See Vol. II. p. [379]379.
(125) Introduction to Behramji M. Malabari: a Biographical Sketch, by Dayaram Gidumal. London: Fisher Unwin, 1892.
Miss Nightingale's Introduction occupies pp. v.–viii.