Four thousand and seventy-seven soldiers had died…
March 1855 CE
Ten times more soldiers die from illnesses such as typhus, typhoid, cholera and dysentery than from battle wounds.
With overcrowding, defective sewers and lack of ventilation, the Sanitary Commission has to be sent out by the British government to Scutari in March 1855, almost six months after Nightingale had arrived.
The commission flushes out the sewers and improves ventilation.
Death rates are sharply reduced, but she never claims credit for helping to reduce the death rate.
After Nightingale sent a plea to The Times for a government solution to the poor condition of the facilities, the British Government had commissioned Isambard Kingdom Brunel to design a prefabricated hospital that could be built in England and shipped to the Dardanelles.
The result is Renkioi Hospital, a civilian facility that, under the management of Dr Edmund Alexander Parkes, has a death rate less than 1/10th that of Scutari.
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