Catalogue description Papers of Dr. Pattison Walker

The letters which he received from her have been donated to the Nightingale School and are included in the Nightingale Correspondence (reference H01/ST/NC1). Other letters are in the Nightingale Collection in the British Library (reference Add. Mss. 45781)

Dr Pattison Walker corresponded with Florence Nightingale from India about sanitary matters.

James Pattison Walker was appointed an assistant surgeon in the Indian Army in 1845. From 1851 to 1857 he was superintendent of Agra Jail. He took a year's furlough in 1855-1856 part of which time he spent inspecting penal institutions in Great Britain on behalf of the Indian Government. During the Mutiny, in July 1857, he was appointed Sanitary Officer in the Fort at Agra. From March 1858 to October 1859 he was Superintendent of the Settlement at Port Blair in the Andarman Islands. After two years furlough 1862-1864 he was appointed Secretary to the Bengal Sanitary Commission. In 1866 he was appointed to the medical charge of the Bengal Sappers and Miners and also of Canal and Thomason College Establishment at Roorkee. In 1872 he became Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals Allahabad Circle.