Appalled at the lack of basic hygiene, she quickly learned that the worst enemies faced by the soldiers were infectious diseases such as cholera, typhus, and dysentery. She quickly gathered data that showed while many soldiers were dying of war-related injuries, ten times more were perishing from lack of hygiene. Nightingale came to public awareness during the Crimean War, where she brought a team of volunteer nurses to care for British soldiers in field hospitals and camps. Nightingale’s efforts were pivotal to understanding and presenting the data in ways that enabled others in health care and the public to understand what it meant.
Less often credited is Nightingale’s pioneering use of data to understand and illustrate the impact of hygiene (or lack thereof) on population health. Today is the 201 st birthday of Florence Nightingale, who is widely credited with establishing the foundation on which modern nursing has risen.
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