The Story of Florence Nightingale the Heroine of the Crimea
The Story of Florence Nightingale the Heroine of the Crimea
W J Wintle
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Thirty men died during the voyage. " And what did these poor fellows find when they reached the military hospital at Scutari ? Here is Dr. Eussell's description of another hospital, written a few weeks earlier ; and it applies to Scutari as well. " The commonest accessories of a hospital are wanting ; there is not the least attention paid to decency or cleanliness, the stench is appalling ; the fetid air can barely struggle out to taint the atmosphere, save through the chinks in the walls and r...oofs ; and, for all I can observe, the men die without the least effort being made to save them. " When these facts were made known, a great cry of anger and grief went up from the people of our land. Practical effort was not wanting. The Times newspaper at once started a fund for the sick and wounded, and in less than a fortnight had raised the sum of £15, 000. A special commissioner, Mr. Macdonald, was sent out by the proprietors to administer this fund, from which thousands of The Cry for Nurses 47 shirts, sheets, flannels, quilted coats, stockings, and hospital utensils, besides large quantities of tea, sugar, soap, sago, arrowroot, wine, brandy, etc.
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