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78 ' FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ENGLIS...
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+ To The Well-Known Services Of Miss Nig...
" The army are picked lives , and the inferior lives are thusthrown 44 The back health among of the the mass is of continuall the population y kept . up by an influx of
fresh liveswhile those army which have been used up in the service are also thrown , back into the general population , and give a very high
the mortality " The army general . itself population ( whether in includes recruitin , besides g or those invalidin thus g ) rejected , vagrants by ,
paupers habits we , intemperate have little or persons no control , the . dregs of the race , over whose nearlall that
" The food the , sanitary clothing state , lodg of ing the , emp soldier loyment are , absolutel and y under y our
concerns control " Yet , and with may all be this regulated the mortality to the minutest of the army particular , from . which the
to injured which , lives the are injured subtracted lives , are , is added double . " that throw of the some whole liht populatio on this n , The evidence perhaps up ;
following may g formidabl " I am e bound state of to things say _tliat : — the military ton hospitals almost I have much seen in in
want Eng itals land of " be certain , Portsmouth it observed sanitary , Chatham wo under rks as the , Bromp Scutari especial ,, " , superintendence This are of " military as of hos the
medical p , staff . , touch Ni It ghtingale is upon impossible the . Her subjects , within objections so the full medical limits y to and the abl of system officers this y entered article of their reg upon imental , obstacles to do "b y more hosp Florenc to itals than the e ,
progress to clear their and effect and forcible upon diffusion the manner army of medical which shows science , a , are comp presente lete mastery d in that of
struck the subject with . the Indeed wide , no grasp one of can fac read ts and this the evidence logical w deductions ithout being it
evinces With . regard to female nurses in military hosp orderlies itals , Miss observes
Nightingale It , having has been shown proved the utter by experience inefficiency th of at " the presence , " of female : —
to nurses " what in class large of wards nurses renders should be disci emp plin loyed e extremel in military y easy hosp . * itals * * , my As
¦ own women opinion of the is efficiency humbly , responsibilit but entirel y y , and against character employ of ing head any nurses but
in Miss civil Ni hosp htingale itals . " ' s decided opinion upon this head is corroborated g
by chapter the testimony of ' Eastern of another Hospitals lady and volunteer English to Nurses the East ' . we In find the last the and in itals
is and result at in home sufferings this of ; personal direction experience of war experience , not , proving but onl in y , alleviation as both the provision great in the need of for East the of the , suffering woman occasional ' our s that work hosp horrors is th with ere
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78 ' Florence Nightingale And The Englis...
78 ' FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ENGLISH SOLDIER ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/6/
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