Yes, yes YES! peaches50
That's exactly what I thought when I heard about the new hospitals.
Wouldn't it be great if they were called The Nightingale-Secole Hospitals?
I've read and written about the history of both women and Nightingale had many advantages and many prominent male contacts and supporters, but STILL had to fight to get supplies for the wounded and respect for her nurses.
Mary had no contacts, came up against racism, as she still does today an yet was as determined to help as Nightingale.
She spent all her own money to buy medical and other supplies for the troops she was nursing and when they heard, after the war, that she was destitute as a result, they took up a collection for her.
It is sad (not to mention disgusting) that she has been attacked even in death by what some sources call 'The Nightingale Faction'.
There is no good reason why both women should not be equally honoured. This is no place for bigotry and racism.