Florence Nightingale: nursing by numbers
A century after Nightingale's death, Stephen Halliday describes how the famous nurse used her passion for statistics to campaign for better food, hygiene and clothing for soldiers and the poor
This article was first published in the August 2010 issue of BBC History Magazine
“Were I a man of wealth I would see that Florence Nightingale was commemorated not only as the ‘lady of the lamp’ but by the activities of the ‘Passionate Statistician'”
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