The request was agreed and then the Royal Institute of research on the health of the military established. Florence asked them to have a permission to do an official investigation in the context of the military hospitals.
She also used her fame and succeeded to attract the support of the Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. Her great work attracted the attentions in England ( 5). She took the lamp every night and used to go to patients’ camp ( 3). With this work the mortality rate decreased from 60% to 42% and then to 2.2% ( 4).įlorence was like mother for soldiers. She provided medical equipment, clean water and fruits ( 2). She tried to provide a clean environment. Statistics showed that in every thousand injured soldiers, the six hundred were dying because of communicable and infectious diseases ( 2). Florence used her mathematical knowledge, and recorded the mortality rate in the hospital. Injured soldiers were left on the floor and the few doctors desperately were trying to manage patients with basic facilities, in dirty environment ( 4). Florence noticed that health status in these camps was devastating. Sydney Herbert, the minister of war, was a friend of Florence so, she took the advantage ( 3).įlorence in 1854 with 38 nurses went to a military camp of British soldiers, located on the outskirts of Constantinople (Istanbul) ( 2). There was a lack of medical facilities and high mortality in British military camps. In September in one of the struggles in Alma, the Russia was defeated but England had a lot of casualties ( 2). A year later, something happened that opened a new way in the Florence life.Ĭrimean war: In 1854, Britain, France and Turkey started a war with Russia thus Crimean war began.
Then in 1853, she returned to London and worked as a manager in the hospital that was called Institute of the sick women ( 2). In July 1850, she went to Germany and France and worked as a volunteer in hospitals ( 1). In England in the middle of the nineteen century, nursing was not a decent job ( 3). But, her parents were opposed to this idea. According to her, on the seventh of February 1837, while she was walking in a garden, she heard the voice of God, which was call her to a specific mission ( 1, 2).įlorence in 1844 decided to work at the hospital. Florence from childhood loved God and holy Book.
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