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Yol. I. April 1, 1858. No. 2.
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IX.—FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE
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The
THE
ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Yol. I. April 1, 1858. No. 2.
Yol . I . April 1 , 1858 . No . 2 .
Ix.—Florence Nightingale And The
IX . —FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ENGLISH SOLDIER .
+ To The Well-Known Services Of Miss Nig...
_+ To the well-known services of Miss Nightingale in the East ainong
our brave and suffering men , must be added another claim to the recognition of the country , and the gratitude of the soldier , in the
clear and logical evidence she has placed before the Commission of Inquiry into the sanitary condition of the army—an inquiry which
, in the horrible revelations it has brought to light , is engrossing much of the public attention , and which , showing as it does the
removable nature of the causes decimating our home army , will , it is to be hoped , lead to that immediate and radical reform , which
, though contrary to the Circumlocution Institutions and habits of the country , is here so imperatively called for as to warrant and demand
the wholesome establishment of a precedent . The Blue Book in which we find " answers to written questions addressed to Miss
Nightingale by the Commissioners , " while it furnishes loathsome and sickening details of the causes of the high rate of mortality in
the army , clearly demonstrates them all , with the one exception of intemperate and debauched habits , as arising from preventible
causes , viz . crowded sleeping accommodation at night , producing so fetid an atmosphere , that a person entering from out of doors cannot
breathe the polluted air till the window has been opened ; many hours out of the twenty-four wholly unoccupied , in which , a prey to
that scourge of civilized humanity , ennui , the more active and energetic the man the more dissipated and debauched becomes the soldier ;
subjected to a diet of which fresh boiled beef from one year ' s end to the otherduring the whole twenty-one years of service , is the staple
, , till the strongest stomach revolts from the very sight of it ; exposed in his barracks to defective ventilation and drainage , the details of
which are too offensive to place before the general reader ; instead of wondering that the ordinary mortality in the army almost equals
the extraordinary mortality among civilians in seasons of cholera and feverit is rather matter for surprise , that , systematically
, exposed to influences known as the most deadly to which human
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page Unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/1/
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