Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment

Name: Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment
Author: Florence Nightingale

by Florence Nightingale, William Rathbone

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by MWS, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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2015-11-11

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Public domain in the USA.

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Nursing Poor -- Medical care

About the authors

Florence Nightingale

1820–1910

Known as the founder of modern nursing, she transformed a calling often dismissed as domestic work into a profession grounded in training, discipline, and public service. Her work during the Crimean War, and the reforms she pushed afterward, changed how hospitals thought about care, sanitation, and evidence.

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William Rathbone

1819–1902

A Liverpool merchant turned reformer, he is remembered for helping launch district nursing in Britain and for a long public life devoted to education, health, and social improvement. His work linked business success with practical philanthropy in Victorian England.

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