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Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life; Introduction to Volume 10; Key to Editing; Implementing Sanitary Reform; Village and Town Sanitation; Land Tenure and Rent Reform; Reform in Credit, Co-operatives, Education and Agriculture; The Condition of Women in India; Social and Political Evolution; Nightingale's Last Work on India and a Retrospective; Appendix A: Biographical Sketches; Appendix B: British Officials in Nightingale's Time; Appendix C: Spelling of Indian Place Names; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Social Change in India shows the shift of focus that occurred during Florence Nightingale's more than forty years of work on public health in India. While the focus in the preceding volume, Health in India, was top-down reform, notably in the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, this book documents concrete proposals for self-government, especially at the municipal level, and the encouragement of leading Indian nationals themselves. Famine and related epidemics continue to be issues, demonstrating the need for public works like irrigation and for greater self-help meas.

Volume 9: Florence Nightingale on Health in India is the first of two volumes reporting Nightingale's forty years of work to improve public health in India. It begins with her work to establish the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, for which she drafted questionnaires, analyzed returns, and did much of the final writing, going on to promote the implementation of its recommendations. In this volume a gradual shift of attention can be seen from the health of the army to that of the civilian population. Famine and epidemics were frequent and closely interrelated occur

Information on Soldiers Christian Aid Association on p. [3]-[4] of cover. ; "Extracts from Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing": p. [15]-16. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Tan printed wrappers. ; ACQ: 36755; Palinurus; 0013200; 5/30/2006.

Publisher's advertisements on [5] p. at end. ; Possibly printed before the secession of Virginia. Cf. Crandall. ; Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection, ; Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Ex libris Charles W. Malotte. ; Blue cloth over cards; green paste-downs. Final page partly adhered to lower paste-down. Yellow printed paper label--with title, attribution, and publisher--on cover; perhaps from original wrappers?

Publisher's advertisements comprise the last 8 pages. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Florence Nightingale's introduction is here reprinted with slight alterations, unauthorized, from Una and the Lion, a paper in 'Good Works," June 1868. Agnes Jones, of the Nightingale Training School, was selected by Florence Nightingale for the Liverpool infirmary. Her death during the strain of increased work caused Florence sorrow and additional responsibilities."--Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection, (1958), p.13. ; Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection, ; "Florence Nightingale's introduction is here reprinted with slight alterations, unauthorized, from Una and the Lion, a paper in 'Good Works," June 1868. Agnes Jones, of the Nightingale Training School, was selected by Florence Nightingale for the Liverpool infirmary. Her death during the strain of increased work caused Florence sorrow and additional responsibilities."--Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection, (1958), p.13. ; Mode of access: Internet.