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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE CRIMEA

Books from the Library of Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, to whom we are grateful for information and quotes used in the text.
Lot 30

[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]
Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Regulations Affecting the Sanitary Condition of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals, and the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded; with Evidence and Appendix, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, for her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1858

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]

Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Regulations Affecting the Sanitary Condition of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals, and the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded; with Evidence and Appendix, 6 folding graphs, 5 folding lithographed diagrams printed in colour, contemporary 4-page part summary on House of commons paper loosely inserted, publisher's blue printed wrappers, upper cover and edges of lower reinforced with cellophane, folio, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, for her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1858

Footnotes

The scarce public report resulting from the investigation carried out by Florence Nightingale after the Crimean war. She arranged the questions, briefed the witnesses, and supplied her own evidence (albeit censored by Sidney Herbert). Pages 361-389 contain 'Answers to written questions addressed to Miss Florence Nightingale by the commissioners', and the report also includes the diagrams she developed with William Farr.

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