Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy

This is a study based on research into the records of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training in the nineteenth century. It traces the development of nurse training and discusses the problems that beset a fledgling profession. Preface to the Second Edition viii

Acknowledgements xv

Sketch of Florence Nightingale by Lord Cadogan, 1856 xvi

Introduction 1

1 The Nightingale Fund 5

2 Founding the Nightingale School 20

3 St Thomas's Hospital Moves to Surrey Gardens 45

4 Training Midwifery Nurses 67

5 Poor Law Nursing 84

6 Nursing in Military Hospitals 103

7 District Nursing 121

8 The Nightingale Nurses Abroad 134

9 The Nightingale School Moves to Lambeth 147

10 The Nightingale Training School, 1875-1890 169

11 The Fund Council and Nursing Politics 184

12 The Nightingale Legacy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 201

Monica Eileen Baly was an English nurse, historian of nursing, and an advocate for social change. This is a study based on research into the records of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training in the nineteenth century. It traces the development of nurse training and discusses the problems that beset a fledgling profession.