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Letter to William Clark: 25 June 1875, page 4

Letter to William Clark: 25 June 1875, page 4

Item Information

Title

Letter to William Clark: 25 June 1875, page 4

Subject

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

Creator

Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)

Date

25 June 1875

Rights

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

Language

English

Type

Text - scan of original letter

Identifier

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

Text

    There is small doubt that Lord Hobart
died of delay: i.e. in carrying out Drainage.
Europeans are under the scourge of Typhoid
Fever in India, for not acting up to our
lights in sanitarily doing our duty.
Some years ago we did not know that
the fatal Indian fever is typhoid.
In 1874, 101 soldiers died of it in India.
And you must seize it by the throat,
please God.
Your estimate appears to be £234,800: