State of the workhouse infirmaries--Report on the Metropolitan workhouses in 1866--Miss Nightingale a prime mover in the remedial legislation of 1867. II. Her friendship with Mr. William Rathbone--His scheme for introducing trained nurses into the Workhouse Infirmary at Liverpool--Negotiations with Miss Nightingale--Her friend, Miss Agnes Jones, appointed Lady Superintendent--Reforms effected by her (1865). III. Miss Nightingale's resolve to use the Liverpool experiment as a lever for reform in London--Workhouse scandals in London--Correspondence and interviews with Mr. Villiers--Friendship with Mr. Farnall, Poor Law Inspector--Miss Nightingale's scheme of Poor Law reform (1865)--Approved by Mr. Villiers--Articles in the _Times_--Defeat of the Government. IV. Mr. Gathorne Hardy succeeds Mr. Villiers--Removal of Mr. Farnall from London--Miss Nightingale's communications with Mr. Villiers--Committee appointed by Mr. Hardy--Miss Nightingale invited to express her views: outlines her scheme in a Memorandum. V. Mr. Hardy's Bill (1867)--Various views of it--Miss Nightingale's efforts for its extension--Importance of the reforms included in the Bill: the starting-point of workhouse reform. VI. Success of Miss Agnes Jones's pioneer work--Her death (1868)--Miss Nightingale's account of her in _Good Words_--Selection of a successor--Effect of the article 123 CHAPTER II ALLIANCE WITH SIR BARTLE FRERE (1867-1868) Miss Nightingale's concern for a better organization of the public health service in India. Approaching retirement of Sir John Lawrence: her anxiety to insert "the main-spring"--Points for which she contended. II. Lord Cranborne succeeded at the India Office by Sir Stafford Northcote--Miss Nightingale's friendship with Sir Bartle Frere--She determines to advance--The "Doors _versus_ Windows" controversy. III. Her communications with Sir S. Northcote --Interviews with him--Her scheme of organization adopted--Dispatch and other sanitary papers drafted by her. IV. Attitude of the Government of India--Letters from Sir John Lawrence--Abandonment of a female nursing scheme--Miss Nightingale's vexation. V. Continued correspondence with Sir John Lawrence--His return to England--Visit to Miss Nightingale 144 CHAPTER III PUBLIC HEALTH MISSIONARY FOR INDIA (1868-1872)