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Returning from the Crimea, Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) used her experience of army medicine to ameliorate civilian nursing care. She was appalled by the conditions she found, affirming that the first requirement of a hospital was that 'it should do the sick no harm'. Problems such as overcrowding and damp, in addition to lack of ventilation and proper sanitation, contributed to high mortality rates. Nightingale's belief that such suffering was preventable was seen as revolutionary. In 1859 she published her two most influential works, Notes on Nursing (also reissued in this series) and Notes on Hospitals. This collection contains the two papers she presented to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in 1858. Also included, from 1857, is her evidence to the royal commission on the British army's sanitary conditions. Three illustrated articles on hospital design, published in The Builder in 1858, form an appendix to the work

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Dramatis Personae -- List of Illustrations -- Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life -- An Introduction to Volume 16 -- The Need for Hospital Reform -- The Pavilion Principle -- Nurses' Working and Living Conditions -- Germ Theory, Contagion and Infection -- Chronology of Nightingale's Work on Hospital Reform -- Key to Editing -- Notes on Hospitals -- Notes on Hospitals, 1st and 2nd editions 1858 and 1859 -- [Sixteen Sanitary Defects in the Construction of Hospital Wards] -- Note on the Hospital Plans -- Notes on Hospitals, 3rd edition 1863 -- 1. Sanitary Condition of Hospitals -- 2. Defects in Existing Hospital Plans and Construction -- 3. Principles of Hospital Construction -- 4. Improved Hospital Plans -- 5. Convalescent Hospitals -- 6. Children's Hospitals -- 7. Indian Military Hospitals -- 8. Hospitals for Soldiers' Wives and Children -- 9. Hospital Statistics -- B. Proposal for Improved Statistics of Surgical Operations -- Nomenclature of Operations -- Appendix on Different Systems of Hospital Nursing -- Distribution, Reviews and Response to Notes on Hospitals -- Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports -- Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports -- Nightingale's Articles on Netley -- A Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army -- Gordon Boys' Home, 1885-90 -- Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes -- Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes -- List of Civil Hospitals on which Nightingale Advised -- The Lisbon Children's Hospital, 1859-60 -- Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1859-61 -- ''Hospital Statistics and Hospital Plans'' -- ''Winchester Infirmary,'' Hampshire County Hospital, 1858-64 -- Midlands Hospitals, 1860-67 -- Buckinghamshire Infirmary, Aylesbury, 1859-69 -- Malta Civil Hospitals, 1862-65 -- Swansea General Hospital, 1864-65 -- Derby Infirmary, 1864-69.

Volume 15 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Wars and the War Office, picks up on the previous volume's recounting of Nightingale's famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive analysis she did on its high death rates. This volume moves on to the implementation of the recommendations that emerged from that research and to her work to reduce deaths in the next wars, beginning with the American Civil War. Nightingale's writings describe the creation of the Army Medical School, the vast improvements made in the statistical tracking of disease, and new measures for soldiers' welfare. Her role in the formulation of the first Geneva Convention in 1864 is related, along with her concern that voluntary relief efforts through the Red Cross not make war "cheap." Nightingale was decorated by both sides for her work in the Franco-Prussian War. While much of her work concerned the mundane sending out of supplies, we see also in her writing her emerging interest in militarism as the cause of war. Her opposition to the Afghan War (of her time) and her work to provide nursing for the Egyptian campaigns, the Zulu War, and the start of the Boer War are also included

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale's work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her "call to service" into practice: by first learning how the laws of God's world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the famil.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Works cited -- Note on this edition -- Chronology -- Works by Florence Nightingale -- Suggestions for thought -- Dedication -- Volume One -- Part I -- Part VI -- Volume Two -- Part II -- Part III -- Part IV -- Part V -- Part VI -- Part VII -- Part VIII -- Part IX -- Cassandra -- Volume Three -- Part IV -- Notes

By Florence Nightingale. cf. Halkett & Laing. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Binding: Publisher's light blue printed wrappers. ; Five hundred copies, not issued to the public, were printed at Florence Nightingale's expense. Cf. Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection (1958), p.11. ; Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection, ; Mode of access: Internet.