The medical staff were swamped by the large number of soldiers being shipped across the Black Sea from the war in the Crimea. The first nurses uniform with Scutari hospital sash designed by Nightingale. ). Our main duties are to preserve Government records and to set standards in information management and re-use. Scutari Scutari. We provide assessment, treatment and care for people, over the age of 18, who have mental health problems, including learning disabilities. The dirty and vermin-ridden hospital lacked even basic equipment and provisions. Description. Scutari Hospital’s harsh stumbling blocks in its brief two years of operation turned out to be an incubator of rapid developments for innovation in hospital administration, nursing and palliative care, treating soldiers as human beings instead of cannon fodder and understanding air … At Scutari, near Constantinople, the conditions were dire. Search the Wellcome Collection catalogue. The Florence Nightingale Hospital at Scutari in Asiatic Turkey, is one of the best equipped hospitals in this part of the near east. The old Barrack Hospital at Scutari, Florence Nightingale’s base during the Crimean War, is still in existence. Scutari hospital ward. Florence Nightingale. The Crimea campaign would be just another forgotten foreign conflict but for the work of two people. Not welcomed by the medical officers, Nightingale found conditions filthy, supplies inadequate, staff uncooperative, and overcrowding severe. Scutari is an outpatient service in the Adamson Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital. Florence Nightingale Hospital, Scutari, C'ple Constantinople. Other articles where Barrack Hospital is discussed: Florence Nightingale: Nursing in peace and war: …arriving in Scutari at the Barrack Hospital on November 5. P & D Colnaghi & Co.: London, 1855, 1866. In 1854, amid growing public anger about the state of the military hospitals in the Crimea, Nightingale was appointed by Sidney Herbert to lead a party of nurses to the hospital at Scutari … More of these patients were suffering from disease than from battle wounds. Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, many of them with free online access. Image taken from The Seat of War in the East (Lithographed plates, illustrating the Crimean War. Scutari was the Greek name for the district of Istanbul now known as Üsküdar (pronounced ewskewdar).It is located on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus right opposite the peninsula of Stamboul which is where the main tourist sights (Blue Mosque, St. Sophia, Topkapi) are located. One of the wards of the hospital at Scutari. The National Archives is the UK government's official archive. In this letter, Florence Nightingale outlines her belief that patient health depends on the environmental conditions in which they recover from injuries and diseases. She recommends cleanliness and clean air – in addition to whatever directly medical treatment the patient is undergoing. Turkey, 1920. The Crimea Campaign. We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Lambeth (North). Just now it is crowded with patients from many parts. The Seat of War in the East (Lithographed plates,.