Nightingale discovered that her diagrams put across information in a clear and concise way. Within a year, the number of deaths had fallen by 99%.Īnd Florence Nightingale had a way of clearly showing the impact of improving sanitary conditions. The left-hand rose shows the change brought about by improving sanitary conditions in the hospitals. In March 1855, the putrid water system was replaced. With tens of thousands of soldiers dying from preventable diseases, action was taken. Out of 18,000 deaths, 16,000 were preventable. The right-hand rose shows, at a glance, how many lives were lost in 1855 alone. The black sections show how many died from other causes, such as frostbite or accidents.Īnd the blue sections show how many perished from preventable diseases, such as dysentery and typhus, which ran rife in the hospitals. The pink sections show how many soldiers died directly from their wounds. She created the Rose Diagram – one of the world's first pie charts.Įach rose represents one year w ith each wedge representing one month.
She began to construct a chart w hich would explain the true nature of their deaths. When British soldiers joined the fight, they died in their thousands.Īrriving in Turkey to care for British troops, nurse Florence Nightingale found soldiers being treated in squalid conditions.Īnd she realised that it wasn't war wounds that were killing them. In 1853, Russia invaded Turkey, starting the Crimean War.
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