[102] In a letter to Madame Mohl, March 26, 1869.
[103] In the same document Dr. Sutherland is begged to do the like for her (1) Notes on Lying-in Hospitals (published in 1871; see below, p. [196]), and (2) “Paper on selling lands with houses in towns” (see above, p. [92]). At a later time she sent the second batch of Pauperism Notes to Dr. Sutherland; but he was of opinion that they required complete rewriting.
[104] For the former point, see the Annual Sanitary Reports; for a summary of the latter works, see Sir William Hunter's Earl of Mayo, pp. 177–8.
[105] The other day in a bookseller's catalogue of “Association Books” I found this item: “Florence Nightingale's Notes on Lying-in Institutions. Presentation copy, with autograph inscription, ‘To His Excellency the Lord Napier, Madras, this little book, though on a most unsavoury subject, yet one which, entering into His Excellency's plans for the good of those under his enlightened rule, is not foreign to his thoughts—is offered by Florence Nightingale, London, Oct. 10, '71.’”
[106] Blue-book, 1870–71, p. 5; and see Bibliography A, No. 127.
[107] Captain Galton took occasion in 1876 to render a tribute to Dr. Sutherland's services. “Possessed of high general culture, of remarkably acute perception, of a very wide experience, and of a perfectly balanced judgment, he has been the moving mind in the proceedings of the Army Sanitary Commission since its formation.” (Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. xxiv. p. 520).
[108] According to the Sanitary Blue-book for 1869–70, the death-rates per 1000 were: Bombay 19.2, London 23.3, Calcutta 31.9, Liverpool 36.4. In 1910 the order was very different: London 12.7, Liverpool 17.7, Calcutta 23.0, Bombay 35.7. In four years (1864–8) the death-rate in Bombay had fallen from 31.3 to 19.2; the rise in modern times is due to the industrialization of the town.
[109] To Miss Nightingale; in the Blue-book (p. 186) it is similarly stated that “in three years the masses have begun to learn that such scourges as cholera, fever and the like can be prevented by the ordinary processes of sanitation.”
[110] Robert Cornelius Napier (1810–90), created Baron Napier of Magdala, 1868. Miss Nightingale's other friend, the Governor of Madras, Baron Napier (in the Scottish peerage), was created Baron Ettrick in the United Kingdom peerage, 1872. In first signing himself “Napier and Ettrick” in a letter to Miss Nightingale, he begged “the high priestess of irrigation” to observe that his new title was “watery.”