FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
RECEIVES ORDER OF MERIT. (Press Asm.— By Telegraph— Copyright). LONDON, Noveinber, 30. ' The King has conferred the^ Order of' Merit upon Miss Florence Nightingale, wi<> is the first lady member to receive the Order. ! .-■, [The name of Floreaice Niglitingale is familiar to all, and though Mate in the day for the honor to L be conferred, it will be very popular throughout the British dominions, and 'beyond- them. Miss Nightingale is ■ now r nearly 88 'yejars of age, haying been "born afc. Flor^ce ."on ; May 12, 1820,' and being the dattgjw of the late Mr W. E. Nightingale, of perbyshire. She was educated in nursing by Protestant Sisters of Mercy: at ;Kaiserwerth, on the Rhine. She was organiser of* nursing 1 in the Crimean war, and re- 1 ceived a £50,000 testimonial, which. she devoted to the foundation of the Nightingale Hoane for the. training of nurses.]
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11140, 2 December 1907, Page 5
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