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Causes of mortality in the army in the East

Army mortality causes 1858 diagram by Florence Nightingale.

This diagram by Florence Nightingale was published in Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army (1858). It shows the number of deaths that occurred from preventable diseases (in blue), those that were the results of wounds (in red) and those that were due to other causes (in black).

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