November 4 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1854
Nightingale reaches Scutari
Florence Nightingale lands at Scutari with 38 nurses and steps into a charnel house -- the Barrack Hospital is filthy, rat-ridden and overflowing. Within months her reforms cut the death rate from 42 per cent to 2. The Lady with the Lamp becomes a national heroine.