Dual position of Miss Nightingale: administrator and nurse. Prodigious power of work--Her attention to the sick and wounded --Her midnight vigils--The famous lamp--The soldiers kissing her shadow--Idolization by the men. II. Correspondence with relatives and friends of the wounded soldiers. III. Strain upon Miss Nightingale's powers--Burden of correspondence--Her helpers--Mr. and Mrs. Bracebridge. IV. Schemes for helping the soldiers--Mr. Augustus Stafford--The Orderlies and Miss Nightingale 233
Nature of the religious difficulty. Rivalry between the churches --Various claims for "representation" among the nursing staff-- "Anti-Puseyite" attacks. II. Miss Nightingale's attitude in the squabble. III. The difficulty increased by the advent of Miss Stanley's party--Charges of proselytism--Lord Panmure's instructions misinterpreted. IV. Aggravation by the religious feuds of the difficulty of obtaining efficient nurses--Worry caused to Miss Nightingale 244
CHAPTER IX TO THE CRIMEA--ILLNESS (MAY-AUGUST 1855)
Siege of Sebastopol. The hospitals in the Crimea--Miss Nightingale's authority there not explicitly defined--Her arrival at Balaclava. II. Visit to the front--Sir John McNeill. III. Work in the hospitals--Attacked by "Crimean fever"--Anxiety in England and in the hospitals--Visit from Lord Raglan. IV. Miss Nightingale advised to return to England--Her refusal--Return to Scutari-- Gradual recovery--"The heroic dead" 254
Sympathy in England caused by Miss Nightingale's illness. The popular heroine: letters from Lady Verney. II. The poetry of Seven Dials, verses, songs, lives, portraits, etc.--Miss Nightingale's view of it all. III. Public memorial to her--The Nightingale Fund-- Speeches at the public meeting--Nature of the memorial-- Subscriptions from the army--Medical jealousy--Presentation of a jewel by the Queen 264
Miss Nightingale's ministrations to the moral welfare of the soldiers--Her belief in the possibility of reforms. II. Her letter to the Queen on drunkenness in the army: considered by the Cabinet --Miss Nightingale's Money Order Office at Scutari--Government offices opened--The "Inkerman Café"--Sir Henry Storks--Miss Nightingale's influence with the soldiers. III. Establishment of reading-rooms and class-rooms 276