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Articles: Moral Stories | An inspired life
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Conditions at the temporary barracks hospital were so fatal for the patients because of overcrowding and the hospital's defective sewers and lack of ventilation.
Helping the soldiers during the Crimen War
A sanitary commission had to be sent out by the British government in March 1855, almost six months after Florence Nightingale had arrived, which ordered the flushing out of the sewers and improved ventilation. As a result death rates were sharply reduced.
Nightingale continued believing the death rates were due to poor nutrition and supplies and overworking of the soldiers. It was not until after she returned to Britain and began collecting evidence before the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army, that she realised that most of the soldiers at the hospital were killed by poor sanitary conditions.
This experience would influence her later career, when she advocated the importance of sanitary living conditions. Consequently, she reduced deaths in the Army during peacetime and turned attention to the sanitary design of hospitals.
Florence and her nurses
Nightingale played the central role in the establishment of the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army. She wrote the Commission's 1,000-plus page report that included detailed statistical reports (she was a talented statistician), and she was instrumental in the implementation of its recommendations.
The report of the Royal Commission led to a major overhaul of army military care, to the establishment of an Army Medical School and of a comprehensive system of army medical records.
In 1855, a public meeting to give recognition to Florence Nightingale for her work in the war led to the establishment of the Nightingale Fund for the training of nurses. There was an outpouring of generous donations and by 1859 Nightingale had £45,000 at her disposal from the Nightingale Fund to set up the Nightingale Training School at St.Thomas' Hospital on July 9, 1860.
Nightingale also wrote Notes on Nursing, which was published in 1860, a 136 page book that served as the cornerstone of the curriculum at the Nightingale School and other nursing schools. Notes on Nursing also sold well to the general reading public and is considered a classic introduction to nursing.
Nightingale would spend the rest of her life promoting the establishment and development of the nursing profession and organizing it into its modern form. Her life is one of selfess service, inspired and incessant. And it is because of people like her, some known and many unknown, that the world is still a beautiful place in this modern world. Lets us learn from her that life is not all about me and myself, it is fulfilling and complete only when we reach out to our fellowmen with love and joy.
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