Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Director: Herbert Wilcox
Starring: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Felix Aylmer, Maureen Pryor, Gladys Young, Julian D'Albie
The story of Florence Nightingale of nursing fame during the Crimean War.
Florence Nightingale
1820 -- born in Florence, Italy.
1844 -- begins to visit hospitals.
1850 -- spends time with the nursing sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria.
1851 -- studies at the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses in Kaiserswerth, Germany.
1854 -- she organizes a unit of 38 women nurses to serve in Scutari in the Crimean War, for which service she becomes a legend. She improves the city and military hospitals, demonstrating how an improvement in sanitary conditions could reduce the death rate in the hospitals.
1856 -- she returns to England a national heroine.
1857 publishes "Notes on Hospital Administration".
1859 -- publishes "Notes on Hospitals".
1860 -- publishes "Notes on Nursing".
1860 -- she establishes the Nightingale School and Home for training nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital, London.
1861 -- publishes "Notes on Nursing for the Laboring Classes".
1907 -- Florence receives the British Order of Merit.
1910 -- she dies.
1915 -- erection of the Crimean Monument, Waterloo Place, London in honor of Florence.
1934 -- inauguration of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation.
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