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Events on Saturday 21 October 1854 1
1854Florence Nightingale departs for the Crimean WarNursing reform begins at Scutari military hospitalFlorence Nightingale left London with a team of nurses to care for wounded British soldiers at the military hospital in Scutari, near Constantinople. Her work improving sanitation and nursing care sharply reduced mortality and established modern nursing practice.