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Barrack Hospital

hospital, Scutari, Üsküdar

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association with Nightingale

  • Florence Nightingale at the Barrack Hospital
    In Florence Nightingale: Nursing in peace and war

    …arriving in Scutari at the Barrack Hospital on November 5. Not welcomed by the medical officers, Nightingale found conditions filthy, supplies inadequate, staff uncooperative, and overcrowding severe. Few nurses had access to the cholera wards, and Nightingale, who wanted to gain the confidence of army surgeons by waiting for official…

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  • Florence Nightingale at the Barrack Hospital
    In Florence Nightingale: Nursing in peace and war

    …that the mortality rate at Barrack Hospital under Nightingale’s care was actually much higher than had been reported—the British government had concealed the actual mortality rate.)

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