The life of Florence Nightingale . a of its size may begathered from the fact that each side of thequadrangle was nearly a quarter of a mile was estimated that twelve thousand men couldbe exercised in the central court. Galleries andcorridors, rising story above story, surroundedthree sides of the building, and, taken continuously,were four miles in extent. The building andposition were alike good, but the interior of thehospital, as Miss Nightingale soon discovered, wasa scene of filth, pestilence, misery, and disorderimpossible to describe. On either side the endlesscorridors the wou
The life of Florence Nightingale . a of its size may begathered from the fact that each side of thequadrangle was nearly a quarter of a mile was estimated that twelve thousand men couldbe exercised in the central court. Galleries andcorridors, rising story above story, surroundedthree sides of the building, and, taken continuously,were four miles in extent. The building andposition were alike good, but the interior of thehospital, as Miss Nightingale soon discovered, wasa scene of filth, pestilence, misery, and disorderimpossible to describe. On either side the endlesscorridors the wounded men lay closely packedtogether without the commonest decencies ornecessaries of life. THE LADYINCHIEF 125 After being disembarked at the ferry below thehospital from the vessels which brought them fromthe battlefields of the Crimea, the wounded meneither walked or were dragged or carried up thehill to the hospital. Surgical, fever, and even choleracases came along the road together in one longstream of suffering humanity. m i. THE BARRACK HOSPITAL AT SCUTARI. Several days had elapsed since the men left thebattlefield, and the majority had not had theirwounds dressed or their fractured limbs set. Theagony and misery of the poor fellows in this un-tended and often starving state can be well how their hearts sank when they at lengthreached the hospital, where at least they expectedfood and comfort. Alas ! there was little provision 126 LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE of any kind for the sufferers. Nolan, in his historyof the campaign, says that in these early months ofthe war there were no vessels for water orutensils of any kind ; no soap, towels, or cloths,no hospital clothes ; the men lying in their uniforms,stiff with gore and covered with filth to a degreeand of a kind no one could write about ; theirpersons covered with vermin, which crawled aboutthe floors and walls of the dreadful den of dirt,pestilence, and death to which they were consigned. Medical assist
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