CHAPTER III. Setting Reformers to Work

SETTING REFORMERS TO WORK (1863-1865)

"Reports not self-executive": Miss Nightingale's determination to put the Indian Report into execution. Correspondence with Lord Stanley--His interview with Sir Charles Wood--Miss Nightingale asked to draft "Suggestions" to be sent out to India--Departmental criticism of the Report: delay. II. Death of Lord Elgin, the Viceroy--Question of his successor--Miss Nightingale's admiration for Sir John Lawrence--His appointment--Her interview with him. III. Sir John Lawrence announces the appointment of sanitary commissions in India and begs her to expedite the dispatch of the "Suggestions."--More departmental delay--Miss Nightingale's impatience--Lord Stanley's intervention--The "Suggestions" approved and printed--Delay in sending them: circumvented by Miss Nightingale. IV. Sir John Lawrence's prompt action in India-- Correspondence with Miss Nightingale--Reforms by Sir Hugh Rose (Lord Strathnairn)--Miss Nightingale's paper, How People may Live and not Die in India--Criticism of the Royal Commission's Report from India--Miss Nightingale's reply--Progress of sanitary reform in the army in India. V. Miss Nightingale as consultant and inspirer in Indian sanitary reform--Sir John Lawrence's difficulties--Lord Stanley's tribute to her--Importance of the co-operation between her and Sir John Lawrence 40