CHAPTER VI

THE REFORMER

Miss Nightingale as an inspirer of reform--Sources of her influence --Favour of the Court--Letter from Queen Victoria: her gifts to the soldiers. II. Miss Nightingale's reports to Sidney Herbert --Character of her letters. III. Her urgent appeals for stores --Dispatch of an executive Sanitary Commission--Miss Nightingale's reforms in the handling of Government stores--Other reforms due to her. IV. Her suggestion for systematic reorganization--Suggested improvements in the medical service. V. Miss Nightingale's demeanour at Scutari--Description by S. G. O.--Range of her influence--The efficacy of "going to Miss Nightingale" 213