When Florence Nightingale arrived at the Scutari military hospital in Turkey in 1854, conditions there were almost as bad as on the battlefield. As Britain and its allies pushed back against ...

That early image of Florence Nightingale, ... War Minister Sidney Herbert appointed Nightingale to lead a contingent of 38 volunteer nurses to a military hospital in Scutari, ...

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady with a lamp. ... He appointed her to take 38 nurses to the military hospital in Scutari, Turkey.

The horrors she witnessed at the British Army hospital of Scutari, near modern Istanbul, would weigh on Nightingale the rest of her life. She later described the wards she first encountered as ...

Florence Nightingale was born into a wealthy London family in 1820. ... The hospital in Scutari (nowadays Üsküdar) is actually a museum now, I was expecting it to be gone by now.

Background. Florence Nightingale, famous for her work as a nurse and social reformer, was born 200 years ago on 12 th May 1820.. During the Crimean War (1854-1856) Nightingale improved the sanitary ...

Florence Nightingale in bed at South Street in 1906, aged 86 Photographed by Elizabeth Bosanquet / Florence Nightingale Museum. In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at a military hospital in ...

For nearly 20 years (between 1975 and 1993) her portrait, adapted from Barrett's painting of Nightingale at Scutari, The Mission of Mercy (now in the National Portrait Gallery, London), could be ...

On her 200th birthday, Florence Nightingale’s legacy has never been more important. In 1860, regularly washing your hands and evidence-based practices revolutionised modern healthcare.

By the end of the war, the mortality rate at the Renkioi hospital was around 3%; in Scutari, a nearby barracks hospital where Florence Nightingale worked, the mortality rate was 42.7%.This 40% ...

For nearly 20 years (between 1975 and 1993) her portrait, adapted from Barrett's painting of Nightingale at Scutari, The Mission of Mercy (now in the National Portrait Gallery, London), could be ...