Aseptic ward tables of iron and glass are now being used in some hospitals, but it is doubtful if their use will ever be general. They answer some of the purposes of a ward table, but not all. Even very poor patients prefer to have their own combs and toilet articles, their own handkerchiefs and stationery, their own books and flowers. If some place is not provided for these numerous small things, which the average patients find it necessary to have close by, they will inevitably resort to stowing their “things” under the mattress—a custom not to be tolerated by the neat housekeeper. Good housekeeping requires that in a hospital, as elsewhere, a place be provided for everything and everything be kept in its place. Until the proper aseptic ward table is invented and offered at a reasonable price, the small wooden locker, well coated inside and out with enamel paint, will continue to be used. These lockers can be made to order for a very moderate price, usually from three to five dollars each. They should be about 20 inches in width, 30 inches from the floor, 14 inches deep, and mounted on castors. The drawer should be about 4 inches deep and there should be a shelf in the lower part. A daily inspection of bedside lockers is necessary, or apple cores, fruit peelings, remnants of food, and refuse of various kinds will accumulate. All cupboards and linen rooms should have daily attention, and should be in such perfect order that the doors may be thrown open at any time for inspection without embarrassing the nurse in charge. [Sidenote: Care of Patient’s Clothing] The outer garments of the patient and those not needed during illness should be taken charge of by the nurse on the entrance of the patient, and the list recorded in a book provided for the purpose in every ward. Each article should be labelled, and placed in the locker in the general clothes room, and the number of the locker noted with the list of clothing in the record book. An accurate and uniform system of clothes records throughout the hospital should be insisted on. Unless this is done confusion when the nurses’ places are changed will be inevitable. Carelessness in this duty on the part of a nurse has resulted in no small discomfiture to the hospital officers. Clothing has been mislaid and not found for weeks after the patient has left the hospital, and the whole institution has been branded with negligence by the patient and his friends. All the kindness received, and the most skillful professional treatment, will often be lost sight of, if, through the carelessness of a nurse, the hospital is unable to render to the patient the clothing entrusted for safe-keeping. Money or valuables should never be kept either in private room or hospital ward, but sent to the office to be deposited in the safe. [Sidenote: Ward Medicine and Records]