[14] He had been recalled from Madras in 1860.
[15] “It will be remembered that Miss Florence Nightingale came to this country and was impressed with the idea that if India needed anything it was village sanitation. She collected a mass of facts and has since been agitating in England”: Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), June 29, 1892, reprinted in the Indian Spectator, July 10.
[17] Letter to Sir J. McNeill, Aug. 8, 1862.
[18] The Barrack and Hospital Commission, re-named the Army Sanitary Committee in 1865; see p. 65.
[19] Her nominations were, in the end, all approved. The Indian representatives were Sir Proby Cautley and Sir James Ranald Martin.
[20] “On the 5th February 1864, the Government of India informed the Secretary of State that, in consequence of the non-arrival of the Report of the Royal Commission, it had not been possible to carry out the measures indicated in the despatch of the 15th August, but that having just received a few copies, &c., &c.” (Memorandum on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India up to the end of 1867, p. 2).
[22] Bibliography A, No. 34.
[23] Miss Nightingale's letter to Lord Shaftesbury is printed in his Life, p. 581.