Florence Nightingale

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By Aimee Scroggie
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was born in 1820.
Her mother called her Florence because thats
where she was born.
Florences ambition to become a nurse was opposed
by her parents as nursing was not a respectable
occupation for woman in the early nineteenth
century.
Her mother thought that a nurse was a disgusting
career.
Florence came from a wealthy family.
She had to go abroad for her medical training to
Kaiserwerth in Germany in1851.
In 1854,Britain became involved in a war in the
Crimea.
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She then became superintendent of a hospital for
invalid woman in London.And Florence took 38
nurses to work in the hospital at Scutari.
Also, at a time then little was known about the
spread of disease or the importance of
hygiene,hospitals were places where only the
truly desperately ill would go.
There were no proper beds or food and more
soldiers were dying of disease then from wounds
in battle.
But Florence changed that by giving good
food,cleanliness and medical attention led to a
dramatic reduction in the death rate.
She was called Lady of the Lamp because at
night she would hold a lamp looking at the
soldiers.
Florence Nightingale was a really caring woman.
It was a really sad year when she died in 1910.