Background
Florence Nightingale was born at the Villa La Colombaia in Florence, Italy on the 12th of May 1820. She was born two years after her one and only sister, Frances Parthenope. Both Florence Nightingale and Frances Parthenope was named after a place they were born in, one being Florence, Italy and the latter “Parthe” after Parthenopolis which once was a Greek settlement, now part of Naples, Italy. Florence Nightingale was born into a British family that belonged to the upper-middle-class social circle. William Edward Nightingale, Florence’s father, was the son of a Sheffield banker named William Shore in England and was born in Lea, Derbyshire, England on 15 February 1794. His father, William Shore has changed his surname from Shore …show more content…
When she recently return from Crimea in 1956, she met with William Farr; Britain’s foremost statistician at that time, in a dinner party at Colonel Alexander Tulloch house. With the statistic she collected she found out that if they want ends to the suffering of patients, the Army Medical Service and the army itself must be restructured. She was about to begin her campaign to change the Army Medical Department. William Farr joined Florence and they began to discuss about this issue.
Florence met with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert later on. In their meetings, Florence persuaded them to set up a Royal Commission to support the health care of the army with her evidence. William Farr was then appointed with her recommendation to help with the analysis. The army doctor and Thomas Graham Balfour, a statistician was a member too. They uncovered that 16000 of the 18000 deaths were due to preventable diseases that was spread by poor hygiene and not by battle wounds. From there, Florence Nightingale wrote one of her books entitled Notes on Matters Affecting Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army (1858). The book consist of 850 pages. She worked on the book day and night that she finished it in 2 years. In it, she compared both army in peacetime and the civilian death rates and concluded that “Our soldiers are enlisted to die in
Florence Nightingale was born at the Villa La Colombaia in Florence, Italy on the 12th of May 1820. She was born two years after her one and only sister, Frances Parthenope. Both Florence Nightingale and Frances Parthenope was named after a place they were born in, one being Florence, Italy and the latter “Parthe” after Parthenopolis which once was a Greek settlement, now part of Naples, Italy. Florence Nightingale was born into a British family that belonged to the upper-middle-class social circle. William Edward Nightingale, Florence’s father, was the son of a Sheffield banker named William Shore in England and was born in Lea, Derbyshire, England on 15 February 1794. His father, William Shore has changed his surname from Shore …show more content…
When she recently return from Crimea in 1956, she met with William Farr; Britain’s foremost statistician at that time, in a dinner party at Colonel Alexander Tulloch house. With the statistic she collected she found out that if they want ends to the suffering of patients, the Army Medical Service and the army itself must be restructured. She was about to begin her campaign to change the Army Medical Department. William Farr joined Florence and they began to discuss about this issue.
Florence met with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert later on. In their meetings, Florence persuaded them to set up a Royal Commission to support the health care of the army with her evidence. William Farr was then appointed with her recommendation to help with the analysis. The army doctor and Thomas Graham Balfour, a statistician was a member too. They uncovered that 16000 of the 18000 deaths were due to preventable diseases that was spread by poor hygiene and not by battle wounds. From there, Florence Nightingale wrote one of her books entitled Notes on Matters Affecting Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army (1858). The book consist of 850 pages. She worked on the book day and night that she finished it in 2 years. In it, she compared both army in peacetime and the civilian death rates and concluded that “Our soldiers are enlisted to die in