Florence Nightingale and her team of thirty-eight…

November 1854 CE

Florence Nightingale and her team of thirty-eight trained volunteer nurses, having set out on October 21 from England, arrive at Selimiye Barracks in Scutari (modern-day Üsküdar in Istanbul) in the Ottoman Empire early in November, to care for British Army troops invalided from the Crimean War.

Her team finds that poor care for wounded soldiers is being delivered by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference.

Medicines are in short supply, hygiene is being neglected, and mass infections are common, many of them fatal.

There is no equipment to process food for the patients.

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Constantinople Istanbul Turkey View →

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Abdulmejid I View → Florence Nightingale View → Nicholas I View →

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Crimean War View →

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