Disease-Related Deaths During The Crimean War

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The Crimean War was a bloody conflict consisting of three main battles. The Ottoman Empire, Britain, France and Sardinia were on the Western side, and Russia was on the opposing side. The war lasted 2 years and 5 months, from 23rd October 1853 to 30th March 1856. It was started with an Ottoman effort to stop Russia increasing her borders into the Balkans and other Ottoman-owned territories. Britain and France joined one year later as Britain was nervous of Russia's advancement since it threatened her own territories, and France was one of Britain's close allies. The war was chiefly fought on the Crimean Peninsula, hence its name [1][2][3].
Coxcomb Graphs - An Overview
After the war had ended, Florence Nightingale invented the coxcomb graph. She used this to show how many soldiers had died on the battlefield and how many had died in hospitals during the war. Some graphs had other variables, such as disease-related deaths and non-disease-related deaths[4]. One of these shows that more people died of diseases than on the battlefield, e.g. in December 1854, 87.6% of deaths were disease-related. Meanwhile, less than 6% of deaths were actually on the battlefield. The other 6.4% of deaths were mainly due to soldiers succumbing to serious wounds, but not immediately.
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