CHAPTER IV. Adviser-General on Hospitals and Nursing

ADVISER-GENERAL ON HOSPITALS AND NURSING (1868-1872)

Miss Nightingale as a central department relating to hospitals and nurses. Criticism of hospital plans--"Suggestions" for nursing organization in public institutions. II. Visits on such subjects from great personages--Interviews and correspondence with the Crown Princess of Prussia. III. Supervision of the Nightingale Training School--Personal influence--Miss Nightingale's reception of lady superintendents and nurses going out from the School to other posts. IV. Closing of the Midwifery School at King's College Hospital--Miss Nightingale's Notes on Lying-in Institutions. V. The Franco-German War--Miss Nightingale and the "National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded"--Communications with the Crown Princess of Germany--Red Cross Societies. VI. Miss Nightingale's continued ill-health--Dr. Sutherland's constant help 185