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Caption: 'Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the east'. In her seminal 'rose diagram', Florence Nightingale demonstrated that far more soldiers died from preventable epidemic diseases (blue) than from wounds inflicted on the battlefield (red) or other causes (black) during the Crimean war. Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army: founded chiefly on the experience of the late war/ by Florence Nightingale. London: Printed by Harrison and sons, 1858. Source: C.194.b.297.(2) foldout after page 314.
Credit: Album / British Library
Image size: 6485 × 4343 px | 80.6 MB
Print size: 54.9 × 36.8 cm | 2553.1 × 1709.8 in (300 dpi)