The call bell was an innovation of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War of the 1850s.
She had based the idea on wealthy houses where the owners would use bells to summon servants.
She wrote: ‘Without a system of this kind, a nurse is converted to a pair of legs for running up and down the stairs’
This bell came from West Cornwall Hospital
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