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+ To The Well-Known Services Of Miss Nig...
beings can be subjected , our soldiers should present the fine physical appearance they do . limb We from pick the strongest , healthiest and ,
menmen sound in wind and , among our agricultural artisan , population , spend time , money , and science in manufacturing the raw clodhopper and slouching mechanic into the trim ,
wellknit going , firm on we -stepp hand ing him soldi over er , and in his while hours this of costl rest y and transformation leisure to the is
insidious attacks of preventible disease , and the no less insidious and more deadly temptations of idleness and ennui . siall
The defective organization of the English army was as gny individual proved in the They Crimea were , as Eng the lish heroic men and courage not Eng and lish devotion soldiers of who the
. saved our honour in the East . The French had an army , we had none onlbands of heroic menwho , whether led through
ignorance ; or mistak y e to charge the enemy , in face of certain death , or ordered out to starve and rot in the trenches , _inadeqxiately fed and
honour clothed , of gav that e their country lives whose unquestioning defective ; content military to organization die for the ,
in having the fields exposed of the them East to death victims and not disease so much at home to the , offered chances them of war up ,
, , as to the evils of a pretentious and rotten system . The public hasnot forgotten the wholesale sacrifice of life in the
. Crimea to the requirements of an absurd and defective official routine , which no man had the heart or the courage to break through ,
hundreds though he for saw want before of those his eyes very our things gallant known fellows to be perishing at hand , and by
dited only not officer avail distant able in it the mi absenc ht be e miles of a written , in the order performance from the of accre one - g
of his multifarious , duties . Neither has the public forgotten the disorder which prevailed in the hospitals , when Florence Nightingale
and her band of nurses and ladies started for Constantinople in the autumn of 1854 .
Never was the presence of woman more needed , never did it ness carry and with gentleness it more blessing so characteristic and healing of woman . With , united that union to skill of firm and
experience acquired in long years of study and observation , * Miss * At the commencement of call Miss the Nig attention htingale of ' s evidence we femal find readers the following to the questions
excel proof and " ans Have in more wers an you y of . department , the We for necessity several especiall , or years y there to be , devoted of is use for in long atten our and ti generation on our systematic to the young . organization training e , of if civil we would and m military , hope as one to itals
hos " " p What Yes I have , V for British visited thirteen and all years t forei he hosp . " n hosp itals t ital in hos s London have you , in Dublin visited land , and ?" all Edinburg the hosp h , itals many in count Paris y hos and
italssome of the naval and miliary pitals Eng ; , werth studied p , with the the Rhine * sceurs , wh de ere la I charite was twice ;* the in institution training as of a Protestant nurse ; the Deaconesses hospitals at at Kaisers Berlin , -
the and war many , hosp others itals in of Germany the French ; at and Lyons Sardinians , Rome , . " Alexandria , Constantinople , Brussels ; also
74 Florence Nightingale And The English ...
74 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ENGLISH SOLDIER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/2/
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