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• Florence was born in Italy on May 12th 1820. She was named Florence after the town in which she was born.

The Young Florence

• When Florence was a child she did not go to school.

• Her father taught her at home.

• She learnt lots of things, but her favourite was maths.

Florence went to Kaiserwerth

• Florence always wanted to be a nurse.

• Her parents did not want her to be a nurse, as they thought that it was not a job for a woman.

• She went to Germany to train, unknown to her parents!

• It was hard work, she had to get up before 5 o’clock in the morning and she didn’t finish until 7 o’clock at night!

Florence went to Scutari

• In March 1854, Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia.

• Florence took 30 nurses to Scutari, which is near Turkey, to help in the hospitals there.

• The soldiers were fighting in the Crimean War. They were getting injured.

Florence worked in the hospital

• The hospitals were dirty.

• Florence and the nurses managed to clean them up.

• She was called the Lady with the Lamp because she went round the wards at night to see that the soldiers were all right.

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• Florence got a reputation for being an extremely caring nurse.

• The conditions in the hospitals were awful, but her caring nature really helped soldiers from both sides of the war.

Florence met Queen Victoria

• Everybody in England heard what she was doing.

• When she went home she met Queen Victoria.

• She must have felt very proud.

• She was also given £50,000 to open a new nursing school to teach new nurses her ways.

Florence’s last days

• Florence was ill for a long time.

• She hardly ever got out of bed.

• She wrote lots of letters to important people.

• She saw that nurses were trained properly.

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• Florence died at the age of 90, on 13th August 1910.

• Florence Nightingale was a heroine. She did more than any other one person to improve the care people received in hospital.