Florence Nightingale - the problems at Scutari

Question 1

Where were Nightingale & her team based?
+ what did they face?

Answer 1

in a hospital at Scutari in the outskirts of Istanbul
+
saw a magnitude of tasks facing them

Question 2

Why was she there?

Answer 2

priority for the army was its fighting men, not the wounded
- at the start of the war no doctors were signed up for the Crimea

Question 3

What issues did she face?

Answer 3

lack of medical supplies & staff
= taken off hospital ships so that vessels could be used to transport troops
= army veterans were drafted in as stretcher-bearers
& nursing orderlies were often ill
= wounded men would nurse one another

Question 4

What was the issue with the Scutari hospital?

Answer 4

had barracks for Turks & wasn’t designed for the wounded
- no clean water available
- bad toilet arrangements

= bad for wounded men with limited mobility