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Letter to William Clark: 5 October 1872, page 3

Letter to William Clark: 5 October 1872, page 3

Item Information

Title

Letter to William Clark: 5 October 1872, page 3

Subject

Sanitary Engineering, Clark, William (1821-1880), India

Creator

Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)

Date

5 October 1872

Rights

https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

Language

English

Type

scan of original letter

Identifier

https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/nightingale/

Text

[But who am I to say this to you,
since if I had to choose the
ablest example of this,
I should name yourself.]

In Mr. Chadwick’s paper in the
I.O. Blue Book, to which you
refer, this is overlooked: –
and when the Gov’ t. of India
printed it for circulation
in India, they actually
appended a note to the effect
that Mr. Chadwick’s paper
was useful but that he had
quite misunderstood the
Cawnpore case.
An Engineer should of course
deal with every separate town