CHAPTER VI

_FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE’S ALMA MATER AND ITS FOUNDER_

Enrolled a Deaconess at Kaiserswerth--Paster Fliedner--His Early Life--Becomes Pastor at Kaiserswerth--Interest in Prison Reform--Starts a Small Penitentiary for Discharged Female Prisoners--Founds a School and the Deaconess Hospital--Rules for Deaconesses--Marvellous Extension of his Work--His Death--Miss Nightingale’s Tribute 54