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Section-IV (Non Textual Passage)
Q.4 A] Read the following passage and do the activates.
This is a brief review of the career of a woman who nearly 100 years ago opened the
eyes of the world to the new science of nursing. We know her as Florence Nightingale,
but to the soldiers she was better known as the Angel of Crimea or simply as the Lady
of the Lamp
6ther pioneers, she was the daughter of wealthy English parents and reared more or less
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Florence Nightingale was born 125 years ago in Florence, Italy/Unlike so many of our
in luxury. As a young woman, she became somewhat of a problem to her parents. They
saw she was not happy in being just a young lady of fashion. She had, what was to
them, air unhealthy and unnatural interest in Nursing. Nursing in those days was far
from what we know today A hundred years ago the majority of hospitals were centers
of misery, suffering and in too many cases, dirt.
But, despite all this, Florence still wanted to be a nurse, and finally persuaded her
parents to let her attend the Deaconess Training School at Kaiserwerth in Germany. For
two years she studied and worked under rigorous conditions but instead of being
discouraged, she wrote her mother, "This is Life! I wish for no other world but this."
About this time, the Crimean War between England and Russia broke out and a vicious
battle was fought on the little Black Sea peninsula. The British we but the joy at home
was short-lived. Resorts began to filter back to London of the terrific loss of life-not so
much on the battlefield but in the military hospital. In fact, over 400 out of every
thousand in the hospitals were dying. Sidney Herbert, British Secretary at War and
friend of the Nightingales, was at a loss as to just what to do until he thought of
Florence. And she, in turn, saw this as just the chance for which she had been waiting.
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