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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ENGLISH SOL...
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+ To The Well-Known Services Of Miss Nig...
sinall scale , and in the face of obstacles and difficulties innumerable , is but an earnest of what woman will easily and naturally achieve ,
as legitimate spheres of action open before her in the world ' s growing conviction of the need of the female element for its highest organization and administration . " Male and femalecreated he them" is
, , true of the intellect and soul , no less * than of the physical frame . Throw open all artssciences , professions , and trades to woman , it
, will be found that men and women can no more be rivals in the moral , intellectual , and spiritual life , than they can be rivals in the
material and physical life . Nature herself has fixed the limit in quality and not in degree , and if man , intellectually and morally ,
hold the sledge-hammer and mace which can forge and weld the surface , woman grasps the keen and subtle blade which can pierce to the innermost heart of all things .
Great and lamentable as the disasters were in the Crimea from defective organization , and from stupid , if not criminal , adherence to
routine , the extraordinary emergencies of the case furnish , to some extent , extraordinary excuses . This inquiry , however , into the sanitary condition of the army shows a state of things at home for
which there is not only no shadow of excuse , but which reflects upon the probity , intelligence , and humanity of every officer in the
service . Among the admirably prepared tables of mortality put in by Miss Nightingale , there is one of such vast and permanent
importance , that we give it at length , with her observations thereon : — " Belative Mortality of the Army at Home , and of the English
Male Population , at corresponding Ages : — Ages . Death to 1000 s Annuall living y .
_^ on — 9 _^ K / Englishmen 8 * 4 * \ English soldiers 17-0
_* ok ° _—* qa \ i Eng Eng lish lishmen soldiers 18 9 - * 3 2
o _^ ok f Englishmen 10 * 2 \ English soldiers 18 * 4
ok An j Englishmen 11 * 6 °° — ' _* \ English soldiers _19-2 _f
That is to say , that , if the army were as healthy as the population from which they are drawn , they would die at one half the rate
they die at now , tions * . t . e . Eight four-tenths ; the , decimal fractions entering into all extended
calculafrom f That the Report this hi itself gh rat shows e of m : — ortality is not indigenous to an army , the following extract the " onl It y has army been in stated which to the us , mortalit as a fact y so does singular not much that , if it at deserves all , exceed fur that ther of inquiry the popula , that
tion fj om which it is drawn , so far as the latter can be ascertained , is the native army in I tri ndia cts , in whose rates are slightly lower than those of the native civil population of those
diswhich the rates of mortality are known . "
Florence Nightingale And The English Sol...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ENGLISH SOLDIEB . 77
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/5/
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