From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
Now I can finish the story….
There isn’t much more to tell. Only that at the time, the only ladies who would take care of the sick people were dirty old ones who had been in prison and men were the main nurses and no one was very clean, not even the doctors. All the rest of Florence’s life, she went around begging all the hospitals to be very clean and asked the doctors and nurses to wash their hands. And they found out that she was right and that there were really germs all around and they had to be careful, just like she said, and everything in the hospitals got antiseptic, sparkling white and they all lived happily ever after.