[To =X EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1
Stn,—In the course of your interesting article in last week's issue you say that when Miss Nightingale and her selected
staff of nurses "reached the seat of war the camp lay sunk in routine like a slough." May I ask whether this description is quite accurate? Miss Nightingale's scene of activity was at Scutari, separated by many miles of the Black Sea from the seat of war. Miss Nightingale's hospital was not in the Crimea, but in Turkey near the Bosphorus. If you will allow this letter to appear it may stimulate some study of the map, and your readers will realise the awful condition of wounded soldiers when they reached the tender care of Miss Nightingale on the opposite coast after a voyage of several days before receiving any treatment.—I am, Sir, &c.,
R. F. HERRING, Vicar of St. John Baptist's, Torteth, Liverpool,
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