Upon her arrival in Crimea, it was reported that one of Florence Nightingale’s first requisitions was for 200 scrubbing brushes – to clean the filth caused by inadequate sanitation.

Long after the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale continued her commitment to nursing as a profession. In the 1860s, she founded, at St. Thomas’s Hospital, the Nightingale School for Nurses, the first of its kind in the world.

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Hutchinson’s Twentieth Century Encyclopaedia. 3rd rev. ed. London, England: Hutchinson & Co Ltd; 1956.