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In a letter written November 15, 1854, to Dr. Bowman, Florence Nightingale gives definite statistics: on Thrusday last [i.e. Nov 8] we had 1715 sick and wounded in this hospital (among whom, 120 cholera patients) and 650 severely wounded in ... the General Hospital ... when a message came to me to prepair for 510 wounded ...

Seymer, L.R.(1932). A general history of nursing. London, England: Faber and Faber David J2013 (talk)