The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-08-15
ENGLAND'S HEROINE
SUCCUMBS TO
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE DIES
IN LONDON HoME-NuRsE
IN CRiMEAN WAR.

London. Aug. ii.-Florcncc Nightin.
gaic. the former nnrse of the crimean
WIT and the only woman who evei
received the order of Merit, died yes.
telruy afternoon at her London home
Although she had been nm invalid foi
long time. rarely leaving her room
Her death was somewhat unexpected
week ago sshe was quite sick, but
then improved and on Friday night
was cheerful. During that night
alarming symptoms developed ana she
gradually sank until o'clock Sunday
afternoon when an attack Of heart
failure brought the end.
Her funeral will be as quiet as pos
sible In accordance with her wishes
During recent years. owing to. her
feebleness and advanced age, Miss
Nightingale has received but few visit
ors. ON May II last. She celebrated
her 90th birthday.
Her Life.
Miss Florence Nightingale. whose
name was rendered illustrious by her
philantrophic efforts to alleviate the
sufferings of the wounded soldiers dur
ing the Crimean war. was the daughter
of William T.. Nightingale of Embley
Park. Hampshire, and was born at
Florence. Italy, May 10. 1920. She en-
Joyed all the advantages which fan to
the lot of children Of the afflueut and
refined. and her command of different
languages and other branches of n
nl or
good stead I'm her after career.
IL was not long before her philan-
thropic Instincts, exercised among the
poorer ncighbGrs of her English home.
led her to the systematic study OF the
ameliorative treatment of pysical and
moral distress. Not satisfied with
studying the working of English
schools. hospitals and reformatory in
stltutlons. she examined similar insti-
tutions abroad In the same spirit, and
In 1851 spent some months In an In
stitutlon of Protestant sisters ut Kali
serwerth on the Rhine
Before long an opportunity presented
itself for applying the practical les
sons she had learned, for having heard
mat the Governesses sanitarium Ian
guished for the want Of supervision
and support. she generously devoted
both her personal energies and private
means to its restoration and thorough
organization.
This work had scarcely been accom-
plished when. before Miss Nightingale
had time TO recover her over taxed
strength. new demands were made
upon her spirit Of self-sacrifice The
inefficiency and mismanagement of The
English military hospital in the Crimea
led TO an outburst of public feeling at
nome. Various plans OF hop were
suggested the most popular OF which
was the sending forth OF select band
OF women. At the request of Lord
Herbert, secretary or war, Miss Night
ingale undertook the organization and
conduct of this body.
AlIeviated Suffering.
by lnstitutlng order where confusion
before reigned, and by affording care
and consolation, Miss Nightingale al
ieviated the sufferings of all, saved
the lives OF many and earned the bless
lngs OF the sick and wounded, as we'll
testimonial fund amounting to $3.50, 900,
subscribed by the public in recognition
~ her noble services, was at her spe-
cial request devoted to tho formation
of an institution for the training OF
nurses, which later BECAME the @Night-
ingale home'
For the past 40 years or SO the
heroine of the Crmea lived I'm quiet
retirement In her house near Park
lane, London. For the past IL or Ii
years, 1t Is pathetic to note, she had
not been able to leave the house. But.
though confined at home by constant
ll-health, she continued ceaselessly at
work for the welfare or humanity. Civ
Ing her attention to all matters an
fecting the public health, education and
social benefit.
She was the author of many books
ana pamphlets intended to disseminate
knowledge on the subject in which she
was so well yersed. Notes on Hos
pitais,' valuable work which had a
very large, circulation. appeared Ia
1852; Notes on Nursing" of which
many thousand copies have been sold,
was published In 1860. and "Obserya-
tions on the Sanitary State OF the
Army In India" in 1863. At the re-
quest OF the British war office she
drew up y very voluminous confiden- II
tial report on the working Of the army
medical department In the Crimeu,
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