Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale

• The Lady with the Lamp

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Florence Nightingale

• Born in Florence in1820
• First helped a sick dog with a broken leg
• Loved her dolls
• One day she visited a hospital
• THIS CHANGED HER LIFE

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Hospital

• Often people who went into hospital died

• Dirty
• Badly run
• Nurses didnt know what to do

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Florence Nightingale

• Parents did not want her to become a nurse
• She studied medicine books herself for years
• She was 30 when her parents let her go to Germany
  and Paris to study nursing

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Crimean War

• Florence 34 years old
• War Russia v Turkey(Britain and France)
• 1854

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Florence leaves London

• No cheering
• No crowds
• Youll be back, they said

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Get to work

• Scrub the floors
• Clean the wards
• Wash the bedclothes
• Make the men comfortable

• They began to get better
• Sitting up, cheerful happy

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Letter from Queen Victoria

• Thanking Miss Nightingale and her ladies for
  all their hard work
• In the night she carried a lamp so she was
  called The Lady with the Lamp
• Soldiers kissed her shadow
• She was given a diamond brooch with Blessed are
  the merciful engraved on it

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Florence Nightingale

• Died in 1910
• Age 90

• Famous all over the world
• Changed hospitals all over the world