PART V FOR THE HEALTH OF THE ARMY IN INDIA (1862-1865) The question is no less an one than this: How to create a. public health department for India; how to bring a higher civilization into India. What a. work, what a noble task for a Government-no" inglorious period of our dominion" that, but a most glorious one 1 That would be creating India anew. For God places His own power, His own life-giving laws in the hands of man. He permits man to create mankind by those laws, even as He permits man to destroy mankind by neglect of those laws.FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: How People may live and not die in India. 1864" VOL. IITable of Contents CONTENTS; PART V; FOR THE HEALTH OF THE ARMY IN INDIA; (1862-1865); CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY THE LOSS OF FRIENDS; (AUGUST-DECEMBER 1861); Despondency after the death of Sidney Herbert-Sir George Lewis; and the War Office-Lord de Grey reappointed undersecretary; 11 Saving things from the wreck "-The Herbert Hospital; at Woolwich-Captain Galton at the War Office-Barracks; inquiry extended to the Mediterranean-Miss Nightingale and; the Volunteers I II The American Civil War-Miss Nightingale; and the nursing - British reinforcements to Canada - Miss; Nightingale" working as in the times of Sidney Herbert" IV; Miss Nightingale and Arthur Hugh Clough-His assistance to; her-His death (Nov I861}-Her grief-Letters of condolence; PAGE; -Her yearning for sympathy-Illness 3; CHAPTER II; THE PROVIDENCE OF THE INDIAN ARMY; (186"2, 1863); High rate of mortality among the British army in India: Miss; Nightingale as a " saviour" of the army Her determination; to obtain a Royal Commission for India on the lines of the Commission; of 1857 for the home army-Lord Stanley approves the; idea; Sidney Herbert, chairman, succeeded by Lord StanleySelection; of Commissioners II Miss Nightingale"s work for; the Com