Note 149 — Chapter III · MISS NIGHTINGALE'S SCHOOL (1872–1879)
Reading edition
The reference here was to Miss Nightingale's “Address to the Probationers” (1872) in which she had written: “To be a good nurse, one must be an improving woman; for stagnant waters sooner or later, and stagnant air, as we know ourselves, always grow corrupt and unfit for use. Is any one of us a stagnant woman?”