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Crimean War (Medical and Nursing Developments (Florence Nightingale…

- - - - Team of 38 nurses headed by Florence Nightingale, arrived in early November 1854
        
        Plea to ‘The Times’ for government action to tackle the poor condition of the facilities.
        
        The British Government commissioned Brunel to design a prefabricated hospital that could be built in England and shipped to the Dardanelles - was the Renkoi hopsital
        
        Reduced the death rate from 42% to 2%
        
        Wards were regularly cleaned and dressings changed.
        
        Windows had to be kept open.
        
        Separated wounded men from the sick.
        
        Implemented handwashing and other hygiene practices
        
        More soldiers died from catching diseases rather than actual battle wounds
        
        March 1855, sanitary commission was sent out to flush sewers and improve ventilation, death rate decreased dramatically.
  - - - It was built with debris and whatever she could find, 5 km from the British camp; it was finished in July at a total cost of £800
        
        She sold provisions and meals for soldiers.
        
        She sold her provisions near the British camp and attended to casualties brought out from the trenches around Sevastopol
        
        She was a popular figure in the Crimea and respected by Florence Nightingale
        
        When battles were raging, she gave everyone food, blankets, clean clothes and kindness. The soldiers called her 'Mother Seacole'.
      - Attempted to join the second group of nurses going to Crimea but departure was already underway, she continued to try other ways but got refuse