Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEDEAD [ARTICLE]

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEDEAD

Heroine of the Crimean War and Founder of Field Hospitals Dies. Florence Nightingale, the heroine of the Crimean war. and the founder of the modern system cf army field hospitals, died in London in her ninety-firat year. She was never married, having devoted her life to the cause of saving life and diminishing suffering in times of war and pestilence and to the general improvement of hospital service at all times and everywhere.