When servants enter the employ of the hospital, it is a good plan to have some kind of schedule of the routine work ready to give them. Certain duties will have to be performed every day, others on stated days of the week. Usually the housekeeper is subject to demands of all kinds. It is necessary for her to study how to get routine work done well, with the least tax on her memory or vitality, and the schedule will help in that direction. Proper instruction at the beginning is always important. Many a servant has become discouraged in a few days and left his place vacant, when a patient explanation of what to do, and how to do what seemed to be expected of him, would have developed a capable worker. It is never a good plan to have such fixed ideas as to how a desired end should be reached that no other method will be accepted. If servants have been accustomed to one certain way of doing things, and their way yields as good results as some others, it is well for the housekeeper to let them follow their own plans unless it is found to entail a waste of time and material. In a hospital where there is such a multiplicity of details to be attended to, no housekeeper can afford to waste much time over non-essentials. The point is to be able to recognize non-essentials and not to ignore things of importance. If she sees that time and material can be saved by doing things according to her methods, a suggestion and a little teaching ought to effect the desired change. If it does not, if they do not try to improve, and refuse to apply the instruction received, then it is better to let them go and try to secure more tractable material. There is seldom a time when all help is just what the housekeeper wants, and it is safe to predict there never will be. Some will need more supervision than others. Some will remember a thing if told once, others will need to have it repeated again and again. One would naturally expect that a thing that had to be done every day would soon be done as a matter of habit, but this is by no means the case, as every housekeeper knows. It is not enough to say: “This thing must be done every day.” Somebody must be on the watch to see that it is done. Some servants when they find a neglect passes unnoticed will be very likely to repeat it, and the lack of proper supervision accounts for the general slipshod condition of the domestic department of many institutions. Usually there are enough hands to do the work if they were kept up to the mark and properly supervised. In the matter of cleanliness and neatness a great difference in standards is observed in visiting institutions. Suffice it to say that in a hospital, above all other places, there should not be a spot from attic to basement that the superintendent would not wish to throw open for inspection. Ice-boxes, kitchens, pantries, storerooms, basement, laundry, all should be models in respect to cleanliness and good order.