Miss Nightingale's "Jubilee Year"--A retrospect (1837-1887). Selection of a new matron at St. Thomas's Hospital. II. Queen Victoria's "Jubilee Institute for Nurses"--Misgivings--"The Nurses' Battle": for and against Registration--Therival forces--Miss Nightingale's leadership of the "Anti's"--Course of the battle--The hearing by the Privy Council--The result--Miss Nightingale's standpoint. III. Her work for Indian sanitation--Political unsettlement at home--Miss Nightingale's interviews with Lord Roberts and others--Lord Roberts's introduction of female nurses into Indian military hospitals--Lady Dufferin's Association. IV. "The Sutherland Succession"--Threatened dissolution of the Army Sanitary Committee--Proposed abolition of the Sanitary Commissioners in India--Miss Nightingale's campaign in defence--Appeal to Lord Dufferin--Communications with Lord Cross and Mr. W. H. Smith--Resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill--Mr. Smith succeeded at the War Office by Mr. Stanhope--Resignation of Dr. Sutherland--Reconstitution of the Army Sanitary Committee. V. Draft dispatch at the India Office advocating a "forward" sanitary policy--The Indian Government's resolution for the appointment of Provincial Sanitary Boards--Lord Lansdowne succeeds Lord Dufferin. VI. Miss Nightingale and village sanitation in India--Scheme for providing funds submitted to Lord Cross--Her letter circulated to the Local Governments in India--Final reply from the Government of India (1894)--Her retrospect of her Indian work. VII. Miss Nightingale and village sanitation in England-- Death of her sister--Sir Harry Verney and Miss Nightingale--Her visits to Claydon--Her scheme of Health Missioners adopted by the Bucks County Council 353 CHAPTER VIII MR. JOWETT AND OTHER FRIENDS Miss Nightingale's public acquaintances and private friends. Her sympathetic nature--Acquaintances made on public business passing into friendships--Sir Henry Yule. II. Affectionate sympathy with her relations--Death of her "Aunt Mai" (1889)--Letters to her younger relations--A burglary in South Street. III. Last years with Mr. Jowett--His illness in South Street (1887)--Their scheme for a "Nightingale Professorship of Statistics"--Mr. Jowett's illnesses and death (1892)--Death of Sir Harry Verney and of Mr. Shore Smith (1894). IV. Miss Nightingale on Mr. Jowett's death--Correspondence with Lord Lansdowne--Mr. Jowett's precepts on old age 385 CHAPTER IX OLD AGE. DEATH (1894-1910)