[160] For the dates of these Addresses, see Bibliography A, No. 63.
[161] Already in her Subsidiary Notes, 1858 (Bibliography A, No. 9), she had included suggestions for a “Nurses' Provident Fund.”
[162] The materials here used are (1) a correspondence with Dr. Farr (1866); (2) a letter written, but not sent, to Macmillan's Magazine (1867); (3) the draft of a very long letter, to a correspondent unnamed, in 1869; and (4) an article for the Nineteenth Century, 1880 (Bibliography A, No. 103).
[163] From an Address by Samuel Benton, Resident Assistant-Medical Officer at Highgate Infirmary in memory of Miss Annie Hill (entered as a Probationer at St. Thomas's, 1871; appointed Matron at Highgate, 1872; died 1877).
[164] Miss Nightingale's letter is given at p. 51 of Colonel Yule's Memoir of General Sir William Erskine Baker (privately printed 1882).
[165] There is a reference to this subject—of Famine mortality—in a letter from Mr. Gladstone quoted below, p. [292].
[166] The Crown Princess had seen Miss Nightingale on August 8, 1874.
[167] Letter to Madame Mohl, Oct. 31, 1868.
[168] In view of its selection as the new capital of India, the “sanitary regeneration” of Delhi is at last to be taken in hand. (See the Times, April 22, 1913.)
[169] In 1871 it was 28.96 per 1000; in 1874, 37.1. In some parts of the town, the rate was as high as 80 per 1000.