The report recommended that the army enforce stricter regulations for its facilities and that doctors keep better track of their medical statistics in order to finely tune their treatments. If the state wanted to save lives, it had to improve the hygiene, diet, and sanitation at its facilities. Her findings were clear: the conditions at most hospitals were atrocious. The result was a 1,000-page report soberly titled “Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army.” The manuscript was dense with figures, facts, tables, and statistical comparisons. She loved the work, too, writing to a friend that analyzing numbers was “more enlivening than a novel.” While the field of statistics was still rudimentary, she managed to pull valuable information from the spotty data she had.
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