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She treated the wounded, and sometimes cured them. She slashed the Death Rate within 6 months of her being at the Crimean War. She provided meals, supplied bedding and sorted out laundry. She organised the nursing of the sick, and influenced the design of hospitals to make them safer and cleaner, and reducing the chance of infection. She publicized the miasma theory and campaigned for cleaner hospitals. She published different books and notes on nursing, and raised £44,000 to set up a nursing school at St. Thomas Hospital. She also, quite significantly, changed who could be a nurse. Before Florence Nightingale, nurses were poor and frowned upon, but she opened up nursing to all classes.

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