■ナイチンゲールと斧

http://b.hatena.ne.jp/entry?eid=315450106

ブコメに書ききれなくなったので増田で。

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/120005752638/enの論文で、エドワード・クック「ナイチンゲール伝」(1914年)1巻に記載があると書いてある。

ネットに原著があったので読んでみた。

原著の該当らしき部分は203p

https://archive.org/stream/lifeofflorenceni01cookuoft#page/202/mode/2up

この本には、ナイチンゲールが斧を持って薬箱を叩き割ったという逸話は記載されていない。

シャツ等の物資の入った政府貨物を強制的に空けたという話も「一般に広く流布している」ものの「確証はない」となっている。

ただ一方で”I think that Miss Nightingale was quite capable of the dreadful deed." (ナイチンゲール女史は荒事に非常に長けていたはずだと思う）とも言っている。

「公式記録はないが、あの人ならやりかねん」みたいなニュアンスなんでしょうか。

（ちゃんと訳せてないかもですが。Roebuck Committeeってなんだ？）

以下抜粋。

"February 1855, she received a requisition from the medical

officers at Balaclava for shirts. She knew that 27,000 shirts

had at her instance been sent by Government from home,

and they were already landed. But the Purveyor would

not let them be used ; "he could not unpack them without

a Board." Three weeks elapsed before the Board released

the shirts. The sick and wounded, lying shivering for want

of rugs and shirts, would have expressed themselves forcibly,

I fear, if it had been explained that they must shiver still

until the Board of Survey's good time had arrived.

Miss Nightingale's impatience at such delays was the

origin, doubtless, of a story which had wide currency at

the time that on one occasion she ordered a Government

consignment to be opened forcibly, while the officials wrung

their hands at the thought of what the Board of Survey

might presently say. The story was mentioned in the

Roebuck Committee ; and, though it was not confirmed, I

think that Miss Nightingale was quite capable of the dreadful

deed."

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