How Nightingale’s diagram helped to save millions of lives
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Showed that epidemics could be stopped without curing the disease
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Convinced government to pass strict Public Health Act
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Public Health Act increased civilian life expectancy from 40 years to 60
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Before this, epidemics were a major cause of death:
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4 in 10 civilian deaths were from infectious disease
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Half of all urban children were dying before age 5
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