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Nurse and statistician · 1820–1910 · Medicine
Cut death rates in a Crimean war hospital, then used statistics and a famous circular diagram to force sanitary reform on the British Army.
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“I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse.”
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Nightingale refused the marriage her wealthy family expected and trained as a nurse in Germany against their wishes. Sent to Scutari in 1854 with thirty-eight volunteers, she found soldiers dying far more from typhus, cholera and dysentery than from wounds, in a barracks hospital built over blocked sewers. She organised supplies, cleaning and food, and the mortality rate fell sharply after the sanitary commission dug out the drains. Back in London she compiled the data into her polar-area diagrams and pushed a royal commission into army medical care. She founded the first secular nursing school at St Thomas' in 1860 and was elected to the Royal Statistical Society.
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You can put that to the Florence Nightingale persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Florence Nightingale’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1820–1910, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Florence Nightingale persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Florence Nightingale’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1820–1910, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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