Chapter IV

REAPING THE FRUIT
(1858-1860)

Fruits of Miss Nightingale's labours. Publication of the Report of
the Royal Commission--Her measures for calling attention to the
rate of mortality; for securing reviews of the Report. II.
Resignation of Lord Palmerston's Government--General Peel, the new
Secretary for War--Miss Nightingale's anxiety about a new
director-general of the Army Medical Department--Disappointed with
General Peel--Miss Nightingale's ill-health--Her sister's marriage
--Mr. Herbert overworked. III. Work of the Barracks and Hospitals
Commission: Miss Nightingale and the kitchens--Work with Mr.
Herbert and Dr. Sutherland in connection with other Sub-Commissions
--Netley Hospital again--Miss Nightingale's papers on Hospital
Construction (1858). IV. Private circulation of her Report to Lord
Panmure--Miss Nightingale and the Duke of Cambridge--Harriet
Martineau's co-operation with Miss Nightingale--Her _Contribution
to the Sanitary History of the British Army_ (1859). V. Resignation
of Lord Derby's Government--Mr. Herbert, Secretary for War--Reforms
in the barracks--Appointment of a permanent Barracks Works
Committee (afterwards called Army Sanitary Committee)--School of
cookery--Improved Army Medical Statistics--Establishment of an Army
Medical School: Miss Nightingale as its founder: the present
college--Other reforms due to her. VI. Results of Mr. Herbert's
reforms--Miss Nightingale's tribute to him--Their co-operation 375

CHAPTER V
THE DEATH OF SIDNEY HERBERT
(1861)

Break-down of Mr. Herbert's health. His interview with Miss
Nightingale (December 1860): decision to give up the House of
Commons--Created Lord Herbert of Lea--Her insistence that he should
reform the War Office--His abandonment of the attempt--
Establishment of the General Military Hospital at Woolwich--
Introduction of female nursing--His last letter to Miss Nightingale
--His death (August 2)--"Our joint-work unfinished." II. Miss
Nightingale's grief--Obituary notices of him--Mr. Gladstone's
interview with her--Her memorandum on Lord Herbert's reforms--Her
endeavour to interest Mr. Gladstone in their completion--His reply
--Public meeting to promote a Herbert Memorial. III. The friendship
between Sidney Herbert and Miss Nightingale 401

PART IV
HOSPITALS AND NURSING (1858-1861)

CHAPTER I
THE HOSPITAL REFORMER
(1858-1861)

Miss Nightingale's work with Sidney Herbert carried on at the same
time with other work. Her place as a Sanitarian--Her prestige as an
authority on hospitals--Her _Notes on Hospitals_--General condition
of hospitals at the time--Influence of her book--Miss Nightingale
widely consulted on the construction of hospitals, at home and
abroad. II. The Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Mr. Joseph Adshead
--St. Thomas's Hospital, London: the battle of the sites--Miss
Nightingale and the Prince Consort 415

CHAPTER II
THE PASSIONATE STATISTICIAN
(1859-1861)

Statistics as a passion. Miss Nightingale's study of the works of
Quetelet--Careless statistical records in the Crimean War--Her
model Hospital Statistical Forms--Advantage to be derived from such
data--International Statistical Congress in London (1860)--Miss
Nightingale's alliance with Dr. Farr--Adoption of her Forms--Her
reception of the delegates--Circulation of her paper--Partial
adoption of her scheme by London and other hospitals. II. Her
advocacy of the better utilization of Government statistics--Her
efforts to extend the scope of the Census of 1861--Correspondence
with Mr. Lowe and Sir George Lewis--An appeal to the Lords 428