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Back to the middle of the 19th century, England was at war with Russia, and an English army was fighting the Russians in a place called the Crimea. Disturbing reports began coming to England, regarding the terrible conditions in the hospitals where the wounded men were being treated. At the time, Florence Nightingale was in charge of a small hospital in London. As soon as she heard of the conditions in the Crimea, she led 38 best nurses and made her way to the Crimea.
When they arrived there, Miss Nightingale found conditions even worse than she had imagined. Everything was lacking. She and her nurses had to work very hard indeed. Miss Nightingale worked harder than anybody. She worked day and night to see that the wounded soldiers were well looked after and properly treated. Every night she walked around the hospital with a small lamp, visiting the patients. To the soldiers she was the "Lady with the lamp". And they worshipped her. One of them wrote, "What a comfort it was just to see her pass by. She would speak to one, smile to many more. She could not speak to all you know. We lay there by the hundreds, but we could kiss her shadow as it fell on the wall. " She even organized the cooking of the men’ s food and the washing of their clothes.
Out of the hopeless confusion she brought order. The death rate fell from sixty per thousand patients to three per thousand. This was really a marvelous accomplishment she performed for her motherland. When she returned to England at the end of the war, she was warmly welcomed and honored by her people.
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