Plenty of screens in a hospital ward is a necessity to proper nursing. The poor appreciate privacy and refinement and delicacy as much as many of their wealthier neighbors, and they have a right to such privacy as a screen affords. The timid, frightened little woman who has just been admitted, and who shrinks from the gaze of everybody, ought to be screened off till the first awful feeling of strangeness wears away. The patient who is critically ill needs also to be screened. The general work of the ward requires the constant use of screens. One screen for every two beds is not too many for the necessities of the average ward. One of the most practical and altogether desirable ward screens is made of a wooden frame, white enameled, covered on both sides with white oilcloth. A set of clothes-bars, from four and a half to five feet high, makes a very satisfactory frame, that is large and yet light enough for one nurse to handle. A fair equipment for a ward of twenty beds would be: White enameled iron bedsteads, with adjustable back rests 20 Mattresses (hair or cotton-felt) 20 Spreads 40 Pillows (hair) 20 Pillows (feather) 20 Rubber pillow covers 6 Rubber sheets 20 Rubber sheets (smaller, for baths, dressings, etc.) 8 Sheets 120 Draw sheets 120 Blankets, forty pairs 80 Towels (for patients) 120 Bath towels 60 Surgical towels 80 Roller towels for lavatory and pantry 20 Bed trays (for meals) 20 Extension tables for reading, etc. 5 Stupe towels with sticks 10 Pillow covers 120 Night shirts or gowns 60 Dressing sacks or bath robes 10 Glass towels 12 Bedside lockers (with drawer and cupboard) 20 Folding screens, white enameled 12 Ward tables for nurses’ use, with drawers for charts, records, sheets, etc. 2 Medicine cabinet, iron and glass, white enameled 1 Dressing carriage, glass and iron, white enameled 1