A Statue of Florence Nightingale is located in Carlton House Terrace, London, just off the Mall and not far from the current home of the Royal Society.
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Florence Nightingale
is especially remembered for introducing
statistics into
her advocacy for better health care among soldiers fighting in the
Crimea War (1854-56). She essentially proved that unsanitary
conditions were killing more soldiers than actual combat.
She was the first woman elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Statistical
Society.
Each sector in her graph represented deaths in a given month.
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