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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S HOME

Another place of historical interest in London is about to disappear into the maw of the speculative builder, states the London "Evening News."

It is the house in South Street, Mayfair, where lived Florence Nightingale at the time when she was so stirred by the stories of the terrible sufferings of our troops in the Crimea that she organised and took out in October^ 1852, the band of 37 devoted nurses to the war front.

Our Lady of the Lamp took control of the base for sick and wounded at Scutari, and, with her helpers, achieved wonders in combating the ravages of cholera, typhus, and dysentery among the soldiers. She became a national heroine, ,and was the inspiration for the establishment of the British Red Cross Society.

Th© house is to come down, and nothing the British Red Cross, which has considered the matter, has been able to do can save it.

On its walls is a tablet to the memory of Florence Nightingale, and it may be affixed to the new building to record that, on the site,' was formerly the house in which she lived.

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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 15

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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S HOME Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 15

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S HOME Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 15