[83] Previous legislation had empowered Guardians to separate the sick, etc., but had set up no administrative or financial machinery.
[84] M. Husson, Director of the Assistance Publique, had been in London in 1865. Miss Nightingale had procured him various introductions and facilities, and he had reported his impressions to her.
[85] Letter to the Rev. Mother of Bermondsey, March 1867.
[86] The history of the matter is succinctly told in the Majority Report of the Poor Law Commission, 1909, pp. 235 seq.
[87] By Mr. Villiers in the House of Commons, February 21; and in the House of Lords on March 19 by the Earl of Devon, who, in moving the second reading of Mr. Hardy's Bill, said: “It would be improper on such an occasion to omit reference to the improved feeling on the subject which had resulted from the admiration the country must feel for the exertions of that excellent and gifted woman, Miss Nightingale, whose name would always be received with that respect which was due to her Christian activity and self-devotion.”
[88] Miss L. Freeman.
[89] For details on this subject, see Majority Report, 1909, pp. 240–242.
Free as air.
I don't care.
Go away
To Malta-y.
I don't care.
Let Sir John Hall
Be Director-Generall.