"Reports not self-executive": Miss Nightingale's determination to put the Indian Report into execution. Correspondence with Lord Stanley--His interview with Sir Charles Wood--Miss Nightingale asked to draft "Suggestions" to be sent out to India--Departmental criticism of the Report: delay. II. Death of Lord Elgin, the Viceroy--Question of his successor--Miss Nightingale's admiration for Sir John Lawrence--His appointment--Her interview with him. III. Sir John Lawrence announces the appointment of sanitary commissions in India and begs her to expedite the dispatch of the "Suggestions."--More departmental delay--Miss Nightingale's impatience--Lord Stanley's intervention--The "Suggestions" approved and printed--Delay in sending them: circumvented by Miss Nightingale. IV. Sir John Lawrence's prompt action in India-- Correspondence with Miss Nightingale--Reforms by Sir Hugh Rose (Lord Strathnairn)--Miss Nightingale's paper, _How People may Live and not Die in India_--Criticism of the Royal Commission's Report from India--Miss Nightingale's reply--Progress of sanitary reform in the army in India. V. Miss Nightingale as consultant and inspirer in Indian sanitary reform--Sir John Lawrence's difficulties--Lord Stanley's tribute to her--Importance of the co-operation between her and Sir John Lawrence 40 CHAPTER IV ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE WAR OFFICE (1862-1866) Miss Nightingale and the War Office: her position as consultant. Explanation of the position--Her expert authority on certain questions--Official legatee of Sidney Herbert--Correspondence with Sir George Lewis--Her friends at the War Office. II. Death of the permanent under-secretary--Miss Nightingale and Captain Galton's appointment--Her hopes of re-organization in the War Office. III. The Army Sanitary Commission--Miss Nightingale and improvements in barracks--Nursing in military hospitals. IV. The Army Medical School, and position of army doctors--Miss Nightingale as the doctors' champion--Lord Panmure's attack on the Herbert Hospital--Miss Nightingale's case for the defence. V. Wide range of subjects referred to her advice--The Geneva Convention (1864)-- Suggestions about soldiers' and sailors' pay--Miss Nightingale's methods. VI. The State regulation of vice--Miss Nightingale's efforts on behalf of soldiers' clubs, recreation-rooms, etc. VII. Her researches into the disappearance of aboriginal races. VIII. Spiritual comfort--Memories of heroism in the Crimea 59 CHAPTER V HELPERS, VISITORS, AND FRIENDS (1862-1866)