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Miss Nightingale, upon the life and work of when, much has been written, was the daughter of a man of ' means,.n landed proprietor of Hampshire and Derbyshire, she way born in Florence, the historical Tuscan city, however, and hence her baptismal' name.
When she was quite a child, even her games were characteristic, for her favourite pastime was bandage ing on her dolls, and ing, patient to come into her care came in the shape of a sheep dog with a broken leg, which she successfully set, From tending animals she passed to caring for human beings and only volunteers, where she arrived Just in time to receive the wounded of the Battle of Balaclava, Here she had to contend with) rear difficulties, partly because of the disgraceful methods of the con~ tractors who arranged either to send out rotten goods, for which the government paid them fully, and if not they shipped them on leaky boats which could be guaranteed to founder before they reached their destination.
She did wonderful work, however and within two or three months she had reduced the death rate of the wounded from forty-two per cent. to two per cent, found upon her arrival sick' men lying on filthy mattresses in dirty hovels and she soon had a wooden building erected to serve temporary hospital and had all her patients lying on scrupulously clean mattresses, on comfortable beds.
Twenty hours a day was no unusual stretch of work for her and Photo by Reville" -msyst
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