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Florence Nightingale Trust Museum fonds
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7 photographs. -- 1 postcard. -- 1 photographic slide.
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a British citizen, born in Florence, Italy. In 1854, during the Crimean War, she organized a group of 38 women nurses to serve in the British military hospitals in the Crimea. She observed and made public the very bad conditions the wounded had to endure in the Army's makeshift medical centres. At Scutari she and her nurses took over and generated a large barracks hospital in time to receive the casualties from the battles of Balaclava and Inkerman. Her methods reduced the death rate among the wounded from 42% to 2%. At the end of the war, in 1860, she established a school and home in London, for the training of women in the science of nursing. The school operated in association with King's College Hospital and St. Thomas' Hospital, and the Army Medical College in Chatham. She was called on as a consultant in military hospitals during the American Civil War and the Franco-German War. In 1907 the King awarded her the Order of Merit for her services to the country. The Florence Nightingale International Foundation was established in 1934.
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The materials were part of the collection at the Florence Nightingale Trust in London, and were donated to the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses Archives and Museum in 1992 following publicity at the time the Archives and Museum acquired Florence Nightingale's lamp for its collection.
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The fonds consists of photographs of Florence Nightingale taken from a British periodical, 1 postcard and 1 slide of recreated ward scenes at Scutari as depicted in the Florence Nightingale Trust Museum.
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Record No. 92.28<br><br>
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- Florence Nightingale Trust Museum (Subject)
- Nightingale, Florence (Subject)