Notes on Matters Affecting the British Army | Florence Nightingale

04/02/1858

Notes on Matters Affecting the British Army | Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale, a pioneer of modern professional nursing, represented in this graphic the number of soldiers that died in the hospital that she managed during the Crimean War, from 1854 to 1856, and their cause of death. With this graphic she showed that the main causes of mortality were preventable illness- es, and this led to improvements in the health care system of military hospitals. Today she is attributed with the development of a form of pie chart known as the polar area diagram or the Nightingale rose diagram.
Name of the piece: Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of British Army
Author: Florence Nightingale
Year: 1858
Image: Llibre editat per Harrison and Sons, Londres
Credits:Bibliothèque Nationale de France