ILLUSTRATIONS

FACE PAGE
Florence Nightingale: 1887. (From the portrait by SirWilliam Richmond, K.C.B., R.A.)[Frontispiece]
Florence Nightingale in her Room at South Street. (Froma photograph by Miss E. F. Bosanquet, 1906)[306]
Florence Nightingale: 1907. (From a water-colour drawingby Miss F. Amicia de Biden Footner)[418]

Florence Nightingale's Handwriting: facsimile of part ofa letter to John Stuart Mill, August 11, 1867[216]

[PART V]
FOR THE HEALTH OF THE ARMY IN INDIA
(1862–1865)

The question is no less an one than this: How to create a public health department for India; how to bring a higher civilization into India. What a work, what a noble task for a Government—no “inglorious period of our dominion” that, but a most glorious one! That would be creating India anew. For God places His own power, His own life-giving laws in the hands of man. He permits man to create mankind by those laws, even as He permits man to destroy mankind by neglect of those laws.—Florence Nightingale: How People may live and not die in India, 1864.

CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY—THE LOSS OF FRIENDS