Chapter VII

"THE NURSES' BATTLE"; AND HEALTH IN THE VILLAGE
(1885-1893)

Miss Nightingale's "Jubilee Year"--A retrospect (1837-1887).
Selection of a new matron at St. Thomas's Hospital. II. Queen
Victoria's "Jubilee Institute for Nurses"--Misgivings--"The Nurses'
Battle": for and against Registration--Therival forces--Miss
Nightingale's leadership of the "Anti's"--Course of the battle--The
hearing by the Privy Council--The result--Miss Nightingale's
standpoint. III. Her work for Indian sanitation--Political
unsettlement at home--Miss Nightingale's interviews with Lord
Roberts and others--Lord Roberts's introduction of female nurses
into Indian military hospitals--Lady Dufferin's Association.
IV. "The Sutherland Succession"--Threatened dissolution of the Army
Sanitary Committee--Proposed abolition of the Sanitary
Commissioners in India--Miss Nightingale's campaign in
defence--Appeal to Lord Dufferin--Communications with Lord Cross
and Mr. W. H. Smith--Resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill--Mr.
Smith succeeded at the War Office by Mr. Stanhope--Resignation of
Dr. Sutherland--Reconstitution of the Army Sanitary Committee.
V. Draft dispatch at the India Office advocating
a "forward" sanitary policy--The Indian Government's resolution for
the appointment of Provincial Sanitary Boards--Lord Lansdowne
succeeds Lord Dufferin. VI. Miss Nightingale and village sanitation
in India--Scheme for providing funds submitted to Lord Cross--Her
letter circulated to the Local Governments in India--Final reply
from the Government of India (1894)--Her retrospect of her Indian
work. VII. Miss Nightingale and village sanitation in England--
Death of her sister--Sir Harry Verney and Miss Nightingale--Her
visits to Claydon--Her scheme of Health Missioners adopted by the
Bucks County Council 353

CHAPTER VIII
MR. JOWETT AND OTHER FRIENDS

Miss Nightingale's public acquaintances and private friends. Her
sympathetic nature--Acquaintances made on public business passing
into friendships--Sir Henry Yule. II. Affectionate sympathy with
her relations--Death of her "Aunt Mai" (1889)--Letters to her
younger relations--A burglary in South Street. III. Last years with
Mr. Jowett--His illness in South Street (1887)--Their scheme for a
"Nightingale Professorship of Statistics"--Mr. Jowett's illnesses
and death (1892)--Death of Sir Harry Verney and of Mr. Shore Smith
(1894). IV. Miss Nightingale on Mr. Jowett's death--Correspondence
with Lord Lansdowne--Mr. Jowett's precepts on old age 385

CHAPTER IX
OLD AGE. DEATH
(1894-1910)

The spirit of Rabbi Ben Ezra. The latter years to be the best--Miss
Nightingale's letters in this sense--Her own fullness of work.
II. Continual interest in India--Lord Elgin's village sanitary
inspection. III. Interest in army affairs--Letter to the Duke of
Cambridge (1895)--The Hongkong barracks (1896)--Indian cantonments
(1896-97)--The Victorian Era Exhibition (1897): Crimean
"relics"--Note on Waterloo Day (1898)--The South African War (1899).
IV. Interest in nursing--The "Nurses' Battle" again--The true
"angels"--Correspondence with the Grand Duchess of Baden and
Mr. Rathbone--Death of old friends and fellow-workers. V. Gradual
failure of Miss Nightingale's powers--Loss of sight--Her
companions--Her favourite reading--Visitors. VI. Honours--The Order
of Merit (1907)--Freedom of the City (1908)--Her fame--Renewed cult
of "The Popular Heroine." VII. Death and funeral--Memorials 402