Leadership
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Florence Nightingale reformed the army hospital in Scutari during the Crimean War.
"The Battle of the Alma, 20 September 1854" National Army Museum
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She and Agnes Jones improved the condition of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary.
"Liverpool workhouse infirmary from the south, c.1925."
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Liverpool/
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Nightingale researched the cause of high death rates for the British troops in India. She acknowledged the unsanitariness and lack of utilities of the distribution of water in India.
"As regards water, there is certainly not a single barrack in India, which is supplied, in our sense of the term, at all. There are neither water-pipes nor drain-pipes. Water is to be had either from tanks, into which all the filth on the neighboring surface may at any time be washed by the rains; or from shallow wells, dug in unwholesome or doubtful soil. So simple a piece of mechanism as a pump is unknown. Water is drawn in skins, carried in skins on the backs of men or bullocks, and poured into any sort of vessels in the barracks for use. The quantity of water is utterly insufficient for health. And as to the quality, the less said about that, the better. There is no reason to hope that any station has what in this country would be called a pure water supply. And at some it is to be feared that, when men drink water, they drink cholera with it." -Florence Nightingale, How People May Live and Not Die in India |
Map of India from NCBI
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Nightingale had leader-like qualities. She was self-less, caring towards her patients, and well educated. Her father taught her "Italian, Latin, Greek, history, and mathematics," according to Cynthia Audain.
"Florence Nightingale" (2008) Directed by Norman Stone.