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发信人: icecap (暖一暖·Fortune), 信区: English
标 题: Florence Nightingale(3)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年05月08日19:06:52 星期四), 站内信件
While working in the poorer districts of London, Miss Nightingale encounter
ed a Roman Catholic priest, Henry Edward Manning (later Cardinal Manning), w
ho was working among the poor of London. She was impressed by the assistance
he gave to many who had nowhere else to turn, and they became friends for l
ife. She was greatly attracted by Roman Catholicism, but rejected much of it
s theology, and so reluctantly decided against joining it.
Then war broke out in the Crimea (in Russia, on the north edge of the Black
Sea), and Sir Sidney Herbert, now Secretary of War, obtained permission for
Florence to lead a group of 38 nurses there. Of these, 10 were Roman Catholi
c nuns, 14 were Anglican nuns, and the remaining 14 were "of no particular r
eligion, unless one counts the worship of Bacchus." They found conditions ap
palling. Blankets were rotting in warehouses while the men did without, beca
use no one had issued the proper forms for their distribution. The lavatorie
s in the hospitals had no running water, and the latrines were tubs to be em
ptied by hand. But no one emptied them, since official regulations did not s
pecify which department was responsible for doing so. The result was that th
e hospital had a foul stench that could be smelled for some distance outside
its walls. Far more men were dying in hospitals of infection than of wounds
. The chief concern of many of the Army doctors was that the nurses might us
urp some of their authority. Florence gradually managed to win the doctors a
nd other authorities over, and to reform hospital procedures, with spectacul
ar results. Once the medical situation had ceased to be an acute problem, sh
e turned her attention to other aspects of the soldiers' welfare. For exampl
e, most of them squandered all their pay on drink. She noted that there was
no trustworthy way for them to send money home to their families, and she se
t up facilities for them to do so. First, she undertook to send money home h
erself for any soldier in the hospital that wanted it sent, and the soldiers
brought in about 1000 pounds a month. She asked the authorities to set up a
n official service to do this, and they refused. By appealing to Queen Victo
ria herself, she overcame opposition to the idea, and the men sent home 71,0
00 pounds sterling in less than six months. She established with her own mon
ey a reading-room with tables for writing letters, and the men used it enthu
siastically. She imported four schoolmasters to give lectures, and the halls
were filled to overflowing. All this was done despite opposition from offic
ers who said, "The men are hopeless brutes. You cannot expect anything from
them."
At night, she would often patrol the wards, carrying a dim lamp, to make sur
e that all was well and no one was in need of help. She became famous as "th
e Lady with the Lamp."
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Everyday we have
is one more than we deserve
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