SCUTARI AND BALACLAVA.
[TO TES Burros Or vu "SPECTATOR."]
Sru,—Your correspondent, Mr. R. F. Herring, in last week's issue says : "Miss Nightingale's scene of activity was at Scutari, separated by many miles of the Black Sea from the seat of war," and hopes that his letter may stimulate some study of the map. Miss Nightingale reached the Barrack Hospital, Scutari, November 4th, 1854, and it was here, fortunately within fairly easy reach of Constantinople, that she success- fully laboured to bring order out of terrible confusion, and was able to use the money collected by her personal friends and the Times to procure necessaries from the Turkish capital. On May 2nd, 1855, she sailed for Balaclava, reached it on May 4th or 5th, and inspected the general hospital there, that before Sebastopol, and the regimental hospitals. It was at Balaclava that she contracted the severe form of Crimean fever which so nearly proved fatal. In reference to the distance between Scutari and Balaclava, many gifts sent out from England were delayed by being sent to Balaclava in the first instance, as were also several ships laden with stores for the sick and wounded at Scutari, chartered by Government. (See Mrs. Sarah Tooley's "Life of Florence Nightingale.")
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