Nightingale’s Scientific Society Presentations
Year | Presentation |
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1860 | International Statistical Congress (London): two presentations advocating uniform hospital statistics and referencing her uniform classification system and forms. |
1861 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Dublin): proposed seven primary elements for tabulating hospital sickness statistics. |
1862 | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: published statistics of the various hospitals adopting her forms |
1863 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Liverpool): two presentations on hospital construction and sanitation from her extensive experience in and study of hospital systems in Germany, France, Ireland, and the Crimea. |
1863 | International Statistical Congress (Berlin): outlined the minimum requirements of a report form for the nature and result of surgical operations, including hospital cost and practical end results. |
1863 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Edinburgh): reported statistics on the causes of high mortality among native races during British colonization. |
1864 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (York, England): an extension of the 1863 paper, examining mortality of the aboriginal races in Australia. |
1873 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science: “How some People have Lived and Not Died in India,” a summary of 10 years of progress in instituting sanitary reforms in India. |
1877 | Nineteenth Century magazine: “The People in India” gave principal facts about the Indian famines, compiling statistics starting in 1874 on the effect of irrigation on life and health in India. |