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central decoration; spine lettered in gilt, corners bumped, neatly
and sympathetically rebacked with the original spine laid down and
appropriate new brown end-papers; presentation copy from Florence
Nightingale inscribed at head of title and with further presentation
history (see below).
Third (Wrst 1859) and most important edition of what is arguably Florence
Nightingale’s most important work. ‘Based upon Nightingale’s extensive
knowledge of English and Continental hospitals, the work was the
most exhaustive study to date of hospital planning and administration. She
blamed the majority of hospital deaths on overcrowding, lack of light and
ventilation, and the collection of large numbers of the sick under one roof’
(Norman). Nightingale is best remembered, of course, for alleviating these
conditions at the barracks hospital in Scutari during the Crimean War, gaining
the hearts of the British nation and earning the epithet ‘The Lady of the
Lamp’.
This edition contains the excessively important papers recommending
uniform hospital statistics together with the forms for achieving those.
These were a breakthrough both in hospital administration and in the
gathering of statistical information with a view to using that information
for bettering situations. Nightingale had Wrst presented these papers at the
International Statistical Congress of 1861. The Congress, which took place
in London, was chaired by Adolphe Quetelet, whom Nightingale greatly
admired. The Wrst female to be elected a member of the Statistical Society
(in 1858), Nightingale had worked closely with William Farr (the Society’s
President and the Registrar General) preparing the programme for the section
of the Congress covering sanitary statistics and preparing the papers
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