CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Dramatis Personae -- List of Illustrations -- Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works -- Introduction to Volume 6 -- Public Health Care as a System -- Key to Editing -- Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes -- Editor's Introduction -- Preface -- Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not -- Chapter 1 Ventilation and War ming -- Chapter 2 Health of Houses -- Chapter 3 Petty Management -- Chapter 4 Noise -- Chapter 5 Variety -- Chapter 6 Taking Food -- Chapter 7 What Food? -- Chapter 8 Bed and Bedding -- Chapter 9 Light -- Chapter 10 Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls -- Chapter 11 Personal Cleanliness -- Chapter 12 Chattering Hopes and Advices -- Chapter 13 Obser vation of the Sick -- Chapter 14 Convalescence -- Chapter 15 What Is a Nurse? -- Chapter 16 ''Minding Baby'' -- Conclusion -- Note Upon Employment of Women -- Appendix -- Revisions for a Proposed 1875 Edition -- Colonial Sanitary Statistics and Aboriginal Depopulation -- ''Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals'' -- ''Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing'' -- The Reform of Workhouse Infirmaries -- Workhouse Infirmaries in Nightingale's Day -- The Liverpool Workhouse Infirmar y -- The Appointment of Agnes Jones as Superintendent -- Death of and Memorials to Agnes Jones -- Later Superintendents and Difficulties -- The Extension of Workhouse Nursing to Metropolitan London -- Brief to the Cubic Space Comittee -- Training Pauper Girls to Become Workhouse Nurses -- The Metropolitan Poor Bill of 1867 -- Workhouse Infirmar y for St Pancras, Highgate -- Training School for Workhouse Nurses -- Other Workhouse Infirmaries -- The Extension of Nursing to Workhouse Infirmaries in Ireland -- Public Health Issues, Rural Health and Nightingale's "Caseload" -- Nature, Disease, Germs and Contagion -- Rural Health -- ''Rural Hygiene''.

Medical Care of Employees, Former Employees and Tenants -- Appendix -- Appendix: Biographical Sketches -- (Dr) John Sutherland (1808-91) -- William Rathbone (1802-1902) -- Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832-68) -- Bibliography -- Index.