The Lady With the Lamp

                   Florence Nightingale

  

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse"(Florence Nightingale)

Florence was born in 1820. This was ten years before Britain had its first steam passenger railway. She lived through the long reign of Queen Victoria. She died in 1910, after the age of electricity, cars and planes began.  Florence Nightingale's most famous contribution came during the Crimean War, which became her central focus when reports got back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On 21 October 1854, she and the staff of 38 women volunteer nurses that she trained, including her aunt Mai Smith and 15 Catholic nuns (mobilised by Henry Edward Manning were sent (under the authorisation of Sidney Herbert) to the Ottoman Empire.During the war, Florence was fondly nicknamed “The Lady With the Lamp”. Nightingale was assisted in Paris by her friend Mary Clarke^. They were deployed about 295 nautical miles (546 km; 339 mi) across the Black Sea from Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was based.Florence Nightingale made hospitals cleaner places. She showed that trained nurses and clean hospitals helped sick people get better. She was the founder of modern nursing.

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