Read the text about Florence Nightingale and complete the sentences with the right words.

Write one word in each gap.

linens, unsanitary, establish, unventilated

In 1854, when it was reported that there were [ ] conditions in hospitals, War Minister Sidney Herbert appointed Florence Nightingale to lead a group of 38 volunteer nurses to go to a military hospital in Scutari, in what is now Turkey, to help wounded soldiers returning from the front lines. When she arrived, she saw that the hospital rooms were [ ], dirty and overcrowded.

She arranged for several innovations. She insisted on washing the **** [ ] and towels, buying the necessary kitchen items, and emphasising hand-washing with soap and water. Upon her return to Britain, she worked to [ ] nursing as a respected profession.