Background Information on Nightingale
As a child Nightingale received her education from governesses since she was from a wealthy family. However, her father later took over the role of educating his daughters. Nightingale loved school and even begged her very traditional parents to allow her to get a math tutor. After a lot of convincing they agreed.
When Nightingale arrived in Scutari she found soldiers lying on bare floors surrounded by vermin and unhygienic hospital operations. She discovered that diseases like Cholera and Typhus were ravaging through the hospital.
Nightingale kept track of the mortality rates in the hospital. She found that soldiers were seven times more likely to die in the hospital than on the battlefield! Since she was a female, and only a nurse, Nightingale had to fight male military authorities constantly in order to reform the hospital system.
Nightingale was very interested in improving sanitation conditions in the hospital. She even used her own money to get a fresh water well installed for the hospital's use. After her improved sanitary methods her records showed that by February 1855 the mortality rate in the hospital dropped from 60% to 42.7%. After the well was installed, fruit and vegetables were made available to patients, and new hospital equipment was purchased the mortality rate dipped to 2.2% by the spring of 1855.
When Nightingale arrived in Scutari she found soldiers lying on bare floors surrounded by vermin and unhygienic hospital operations. She discovered that diseases like Cholera and Typhus were ravaging through the hospital.
Nightingale kept track of the mortality rates in the hospital. She found that soldiers were seven times more likely to die in the hospital than on the battlefield! Since she was a female, and only a nurse, Nightingale had to fight male military authorities constantly in order to reform the hospital system.
Nightingale was very interested in improving sanitation conditions in the hospital. She even used her own money to get a fresh water well installed for the hospital's use. After her improved sanitary methods her records showed that by February 1855 the mortality rate in the hospital dropped from 60% to 42.7%. After the well was installed, fruit and vegetables were made available to patients, and new hospital equipment was purchased the mortality rate dipped to 2.2% by the spring of 1855.