Florence Nightingale gathered the following data in 1855.

     

Population Sampled	Deaths from Contagious Diseases
Englishmen (in the general population)	0.2%
English soldiers (In England)	18.7%
English soldiers (in Crimean War)	42.7%
English soldiers (In Crimean War) after Nightingale’s sanitary reforms	2.2%

Discuss how Nightingale used the three basic types of epidemiological investigation. The contagious diseases were primarily cholera and typhus; how are these diseases transmitted and prevented?

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