Mr Barwell's facts about Victorian Hospitals and Florence NIghtingale

Hospitals nowadays are clean and hygienic. This helps patients so that they don't spread diseases in germs in hospitals. This all happened because Florence Nightingale encouraged the doctors in the Victorian hospitals to start to wash their hands.



The conditions in Victorian hospitals were very dirty and germs were everywhere! There was a poor supply of medicine and beds; this did not help in preventing further infections.



Florence Nightingale was known as the "Lady with the Lamp" because she used to carry a lantern around with her by the soldiers that she cared for day and night. When it was dark, she carried a lantern with her so that she could see better.

Did you know that Florence Nightingale received the Royal Red Cross by Queen Victoria in 1883?