... this the Minister of War was proposing that she should take charge of all nursing operations at the War front. Florence set off with 38 British nurses for Scutari (now part of Istanbul, Turkey) and found the following shocking conditions. 1. The men can lie in filth for 2 weeks before being seen by a doctor. 2. The men are lying on unwashed floors. 3. The floors are covered in virmin and lice. 4. Few men have blankets or pillows. 5. They rest their heads on boots and use overcoats for blankets. 6. Operations are carried out in full view of everyone. The screams of people having limbs cut off is terrible. 7. There are 1000 men in the hospital, many with diarrhoea, a serious problem when there are only 20 chamber pots! 8. The toilets overflow onto the floor and men without shoes or slippers have to paddle through this. 9. Amputated limbs are dumped outside to ...

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