CHAPTER IV

REAPING THE FRUIT (1858-1860)

Fruits of Miss Nightingale's labours. Publication of the Report of the Royal Commission--Her measures for calling attention to the rate of mortality; for securing reviews of the Report. II. Resignation of Lord Palmerston's Government--General Peel, the new Secretary for War--Miss Nightingale's anxiety about a new director-general of the Army Medical Department--Disappointed with General Peel--Miss Nightingale's ill-health--Her sister's marriage --Mr. Herbert overworked. III. Work of the Barracks and Hospitals Commission: Miss Nightingale and the kitchens--Work with Mr. Herbert and Dr. Sutherland in connection with other Sub-Commissions --Netley Hospital again--Miss Nightingale's papers on Hospital Construction (1858). IV. Private circulation of her Report to Lord Panmure--Miss Nightingale and the Duke of Cambridge--Harriet Martineau's co-operation with Miss Nightingale--Her _Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army_ (1859). V. Resignation of Lord Derby's Government--Mr. Herbert, Secretary for War--Reforms in the barracks--Appointment of a permanent Barracks Works Committee (afterwards called Army Sanitary Committee)--School of cookery--Improved Army Medical Statistics--Establishment of an Army Medical School: Miss Nightingale as its founder: the present college--Other reforms due to her. VI. Results of Mr. Herbert's reforms--Miss Nightingale's tribute to him--Their co-operation 375