Florence NIGHTINGALE
The Real Florence NIGHTINGALE
The Call.” age mind was made up tla&t she must into, the nursing profession, a thing which her friends dreaded, for the- time that work was not the -‘highlv profession which Florence Nightingale made it for us to-day. The immorality amongst its members was notorious, and.the women who followed it were largely a who, if they* had not been nurses, would have . domestic servants. This jyas the had to conquer. -A trip abroad did not dispel ber determination; even the offer her father to fit and financa (SiPonifqrd House a nursing institution failed’ to -shake her purpose. this she had.’unknown to any but her nearest relatives, undergone short ap- Bridge Houae she joined the Sisters of Charity in Paris. It was here that aher was launched upon hertrueworkiti the-world, in the training which fitted h«r • {ate turn several-tondoff Institutions, and to convince committees of hevdey of her power,” and one reads one realises the tremendous, W of the whole range hOBOTtsU work, bow she saw ‘and overcame its shortcomings In administration, how she really assumed command of the whole question, and felt in her own mind that she could make the medical men say what she wanted them to say in* order to help her carry her reforms. Strong Woman ** of the Crimea. We pass lightly ever this Period; her life, which impresses «« Afeatly with the fact that the Florence Nightingale who was soon to face the horrors of wear did not enter on that great incident of her life a matter sentiment, as. many have thoueht but as the-strong-minded woman who had already made England recognise her work, and who out all her countrywomen was chosen to command small response to the pltiSis appeals of Mr. William Howard Powell the special correspondent of the “Ses” was not sympathetic nursing that sent Florence Nightingale the Crimea, but her administrative ability, likewise her work the seat wai find Sr Edward Cook places before not the popular view of the good lady who, lamp in hand, her way dm ins the wounded soldiers say word here, and to soothe a suffering body there. Though sympathy was the very groundwork her whole career, her biographer reveals her to as the commalding woman who grasped the situation and ‘marshalled all the forces she could command with the genius of born The wards, the kitchens, the cooking and feeding arrangements were all transformed under her eye. which was not above distinguishing bet ween bone and gristle and meat ?? the men’s dinner. She went tar ask that the meat should- issued from the store’s boned, but en this point she had give iti, for, she wrote, the Inspector- General informed her that it would require a new Regulation of the Service to bone the meat!!” She even took the reaponsibility of building, when the work •would provide boepit&l accommodation for RAO paw** only find thst when she had her 125 workmen. With shows the real «fiatare of the …. to be continued
Derbyshire Courier – Saturday 22 November 1913
