Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care

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.

• Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6, edited by Lynn McDonaldAcknowledgmentsDramatis PersonaeList of IllustrationsFlorence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected WorksIntroduction to Volume 6Public Health Care as a SystemKey to EditingNotes on Nursing for the Labouring ClassesEditor's IntroductionPrefaceNotes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is NotChapter 1. Ventilation and WarmingChapter 2. Health of HousesChapter 3. Petty ManagementChapter 4. NoiseChapter 5. VarietyChapter 6. Taking FoodChapter 7. What Food?Chapter 8. Bed and BeddingChapter 9. LightChapter 10. Cleanliness of Rooms and WallsChapter 11. Personal CleanlinessChapter 12. Chattering Hopes and AdvicesChapter 13. Observation of the SickChapter 14. ConvalescenceChapter 15. What Is a Nurse?Chapter 16. ""Minding Baby""ConclusionNote Upon Employment of WomenAppendixRevisions for a Proposed 1875 EditionColonial Sanitary Statistics and Aboriginal Depopulation""Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals""""Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing""The Reform of Workhouse InfirmariesWorkhouse Infirmaries in Nightingale's DayThe Liverpool Workhouse InfirmaryThe Appointment of Agnes Jones as SuperintendentDeath of and Memorials to Agnes JonesLater Superintendents and DifficultiesThe Extension of Workhouse Nursing to Metropolitan LondonBrief to the Cubic Space ComitteeTraining Pauper Girls to Become Workhouse NursesThe Metropolitan Poor Bill of 1867Workhouse Infirmary for St Pancras, HighgateTraining School for Workhouse NursesOther Workhouse InfirmariesThe Extension of Nursing to Workhouse Infirmaries in IrelandPublic Health Issues, Rural Health and Nightingale's ""Caseload""Nature, Disease, Germs and ContagionRural Health""Rural Hygiene""Medical Care of Employees, Former Employees and TenantsAppendixAppendix: Biographical Sketches(Dr) John Sutherland (1808-91)William Rathbone (1802-1902)Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832-68)BibliographyIndex

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