Nightingale Sails for Scutari
October 1, 1854
Florence Nightingale arrived at the barrack hospital at Scutari with thirty-eight nurses and a mania for cleanliness and statistics. The sick were dying of typhus and cholera faster than of Russian bullets. She cleaned drains, opened windows, and kept numbers. The death rate collapsed. Modern hospital nursing began in a Turkish barracks.
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