The following papers on the Sanitary Condition of Hospitals, and on Defects in the Construction of Hospital Wards, by Miss Nightingale, were read at the Liverpool meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, in October 1858, and are now printed in terms of a resolution of the Association.
The publisher has thought that it would further be the objects of the Association if the evidence given by Miss Nightingale before the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army were reprinted, and he has added it accordingly. That evidence not only contains information of public importance, as regards the army and its hospitals during the late war with Russia, but gives the results of many years' experience with regard to the principles of hospital construction and organization.
In order to make the information on hospital construction as complete as possible, three papers from the Builder, of August 28th, and September 11th and 25th, 1858, have been also reprinted, by the kind permission of Mr. George Godwin, who has paid much attention to the subject. They present similar views on the architectural arrangement of hospitals.
