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This sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale’s considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease prevention. It follows directly from her understanding of social science and broader social reform activities, which were related in Society and Politics (Volume 5). Public Health Care includes a critical edition of Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes, papers on mortality in aboriginal schools and hospitals, and on rural health. It reports much unknown material on Nightingale’s signal contribution of bringing professional nursing into the dreaded workhouse infirmaries. This collection presents letters and notes on a wide range of issues from specific diseases to germ theory, and relates some of her own extensive work as a nurse practitioner, which included organizing referrals to doctors and providing related care.
Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.
Lynn McDonald, director of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is university professor emerita at the University of Guelph. She is an environmentalist, a former member of parliament, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and a long-time activist on womens issues. She has an honorary doctorate from York University.
Table of Contents for Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6, edited by Lynn McDonald
Acknowledgments
Dramatis Personae
List of Illustrations
Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works
Introduction to Volume 6
Public Health Care as a System
Key to Editing
Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes
Editor’s Introduction
Preface
Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not
Chapter 1. Ventilation and Warming
Chapter 2. Health of Houses
Chapter 3. Petty Management
Chapter 4. Noise
Chapter 5. Variety
Chapter 6. Taking Food
Chapter 7. What Food?
Chapter 8. Bed and Bedding
Chapter 9. Light
Chapter 10. Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls
Chapter 11. Personal Cleanliness
Chapter 12. Chattering Hopes and Advices
Chapter 13. Observation of the Sick
Chapter 14. Convalescence
Chapter 15. What Is a Nurse?
Chapter 16. “Minding Baby”
Conclusion
Note Upon Employment of Women
Appendix
Revisions for a Proposed 1875 Edition
Colonial Sanitary Statistics and Aboriginal Depopulation
“Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals”
“Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing”
The Reform of Workhouse Infirmaries
Workhouse Infirmaries in Nightingale’s Day
The Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary
The Appointment of Agnes Jones as Superintendent
Death of and Memorials to Agnes Jones
Later Superintendents and Difficulties
The Extension of Workhouse Nursing to Metropolitan London
Brief to the Cubic Space Comittee
Training Pauper Girls to Become Workhouse Nurses
The Metropolitan Poor Bill of 1867
Workhouse Infirmary for St Pancras, Highgate
Training School for Workhouse Nurses
Other Workhouse Infirmaries
The Extension of Nursing to Workhouse Infirmaries in Ireland
Public Health Issues, Rural Health and Nightingale’s “Caseload”
Nature, Disease, Germs and Contagion
Rural Health
“Rural Hygiene”
Medical Care of Employees, Former Employees and Tenants
Appendix
Appendix: Biographical Sketches
(Dr) John Sutherland (1808–91)
William Rathbone (1802–1902)
Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832–68)
Bibliography
Index