{"id":2382,"date":"2019-12-23T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=2382"},"modified":"2022-08-07T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T08:45:05","slug":"florence-nightingale-diagrams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/florence-nightingale-diagrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightingale&#8217;s infographics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Florence Nightingale&#8217;s most famous infographic (1858)<\/span><br> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u6XqiDccroM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Florence Nightingale produced the original <em><strong>Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East <\/strong><\/em>in late 1858.&nbsp; It showed that the death rate from disease (blues area) was higher in the first year of the war <em>(right half of diagram)<\/em>, before improvements in sanitation in camps and hospitals. 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save millions of lives?<\/a><em>. <\/em>Explores the real impact of the &#8216;coxcomb&#8217; or &#8216;rose diagram&#8217;.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\">Home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florence Nightingale&#8217;s most famous infographic (1858) Florence Nightingale produced the original Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East in late 1858.&nbsp; It showed that the death rate from disease (blues area) was higher in the first year of the war (right half of diagram), before improvements in sanitation in camps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/florence-nightingale-diagrams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nightingale&#8217;s infographics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2382","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Florence Nightingale&#039;s famous diagram<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn why her diagram achieved such dramatic results in avoiding millions of premature deaths.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/florence-nightingale-diagrams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Florence Nightingale&#039;s famous diagram\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn why her diagram achieved such dramatic results in avoiding millions of premature deaths.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/florence-nightingale-diagrams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Florence Nightingale&#039;s forgotten legacy: Public Health laws\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hugh.small.37\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-07T08:45:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/florence-nightingale-diagrams\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/florence-nightingale-diagrams\/\",\"name\":\"Florence Nightingale's famous diagram\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-23T15:44:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-07T08:45:05+00:00\",\"description\":\"Learn why her diagram achieved such dramatic results in avoiding millions of premature deaths.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/florence-nightingale-diagrams\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/florence-nightingale-diagrams\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/florence-nightingale-diagrams\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nightingale&#8217;s infographics\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"How Florence Nightingale changed the world - not just the hospitals\",\"description\":\"She created the 1875 Public Health Act, against opposition from the medical elite. 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