Florence Nightingale as seen in her portraits : with a sketch of her life, and an account of her relation to the origin of the Red Cross Society . ouse Re-form, a movement which grew directly out ofthe work of the Nightingale Training School. Inthe year 1864, no legislation provided for thecare of the sick poor in England, and an ab-solute lack of attendance combined with a de-graded class of patients to make the conditionsthe worst possible. From a noted philan-thropist came the suggestion, that at the Liver-pool Work-House Infirmary, one of the mostdifficult institutions of all, the experime
Florence Nightingale as seen in her portraits : with a sketch of her life, and an account of her relation to the origin of the Red Cross Society . ouse Re-form, a movement which grew directly out ofthe work of the Nightingale Training School. Inthe year 1864, no legislation provided for thecare of the sick poor in England, and an ab-solute lack of attendance combined with a de-graded class of patients to make the conditionsthe worst possible. From a noted philan-thropist came the suggestion, that at the Liver-pool Work-House Infirmary, one of the mostdifficult institutions of all, the experimentshould be tried of placing twelve Nightingalenui-ses in control, with a superintendent chosenfrom among them. The story of Miss AliceJones, a gentle girl of high religious views, agraduate of Kaiserwerth, and later of the School, who struggled and won vic-tory among vicious patients and a difficult man-agement, and who gave up her life in doing so,is one of the romances of the history of is told by Miss Nightingale, under the titleUna and the Lion, in good words. The suc-cess won here led the way for the Metropolitan. Plate XIV. Florence Nightingale in Her Koom in South Street at the Age of a photograph by Miss Bosanquet, 1906, and reproduced in Sir EdwardCooks Life of Florence Nightingale. 64 Poor Act of 1867, which was a starting-point ofmedical relief to the poor in England, and isto be traced to the efforts of many earnest menand women, and chief among them to MissNightingale. The failure of one of her attempts, that is, ofthe Training School at the Lying-in Depart-ment of the Kings College Hospital, is to berecorded. It is of importance chiefly today,because it led to the publication of her Noteson Lying-in Institutions, which is to be com-pared to the Notes on Nursing in its clear-ness and originality and the soundness of itspractical applications. The Nightingale Training School Avas alwaysunder Miss Nightingales supervision, but a
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