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Florence Nightingale

(1820 – 1910)

New words

1. to be horrified- быть в ужасе

2.inspired by God-вдохновлённая Богом

3.leisurely:

имя прилагательное

медленный, неторопливый

наречие

не спеша

4. In 1851 she trained to be a nurse in Germany- В 1851 году она обучалась на медсестру в Германии.

5. She took the post of superintendent at the Institute for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen in Upper Harley Street- она заняла пост начальника Института по уходу за больными знатными дамами на Верхней Харли-стрит

6. The Crimean War-Крымская война

7. cesspit- выгребная яма, помойная яма

8. to flush out the sewers and improve the hospital’s ventilation system- промыть канализацию и улучшить системы вентиляции больницы.

9. to get rid of germs and bacteria- избавиться от микробов и бактерий.

10. statistican –статистик

11. Newspaper reports about the ‘angel’ at Scutari made Florence a celebrity.- Газетные сообщения об "ангеле" в Скутари сделали Флоренцию знаменитостью.

12. They took the ‘Nightingale Pledge’ and spread Florence’s caring methods at home and in other countries. - Они приняли клятву Нйтингейл "и распространяли методы ухода Флоренс у себя дома и в других странах.

Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing, and showed that trained nurses and clean hospitals helped sick people get better. She was known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp” because she walked around the hospital in the evenings with a lamp to check that everything was in order.

Florence’s Childhood

Florence was born to a wealthy family on May 12, 1820 in the Italian city of Florence after which she was named. Her father was William Nightingale, a rich banker. He taught his daughters subjects, girls did not normally study, such as mathematics, philosophy, Italian and history. Florence was very clever and gifted at maths.

Training as a nurse

When Florence was 24, she told her family she wanted to become a nurse. She felt inspired by God to help others. Her parents were horrified. Hospitals in Victorian Britain were not nice places, and nurses were poor. Wealthy ladies did not get their hands dirty! Florence disliked how rich women had leisurely lives like her mother, Frances Nightingale.

Determined to work hard, Florence went to Egypt in 1850 to study nursing. In 1851 she trained to be a nurse in Germany. She refused to get married, thinking it would interfere with her work. In 1853, Florence had her first job in a hospital in London, when she took the post of superintendent at the Institute for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen in Upper Harley Street.

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The Crimean War began in 1854 while Florence was working at in London. England, France and Turkey were fighting together against Russia. The British public was angry that soldiers were dying in an overcrowded Army hospital that was built on top of a cesspit and full of rats. The Minister for War, Sidney Herbert, was Florence’s friend. He thought she could help in the hospital and arranged for her to go there with a group of nurses. Soldiers were dying in huge numbers from diseases like cholera and typhoid. Florence set to work improving hygiene conditions, cleaning soldiers’ wounds and bed sheets. Like most people at the time, she knew little about how infectious diseases spread. A sanitary commission visited the hospital in 1855. It flushed out the sewers and improved the hospital’s ventilation system. This helped get rid of germs and bacteria.

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