_E._ Midwife’s Room. _F._ Post-mortem Theatre. _G, G._ General and Provision Hoists. _K._ This roof is not higher than the basement. _x._ Ventilating openings on a level with upper part of opposite window. _a, a, a, a._ Doors cutting off communication with either Accouchement Ward when necessary. _b._ No. 4 Ward. The plan shows the relation of the delivery wards to the recovery ward, and to the other parts of the hospital; to the lecture room, post mortem theatre, &c. The main defects in the construction are: the back to back wards; proximity of these wards to the general wards of the hospital; the large staircase, common to both sets of wards, although its size and openness, and the windows opposite each other and on each floor, ensured ventilation, and separated the respective blocks; the position of the post-mortem theatre, the smell from which, as stated on the best authority, could be distinctly detected in the wards. As already stated, students were admitted from other parts of the hospital to the midwifery wards. _RESULTS OF IMPROVED LYING-IN WARD CONSTRUCTION._ A few instances of improved lying-in ward construction, together with the death-rates in these establishments, will next be given. _Military Female Hospitals._—These buildings vary in constructive arrangements. Some are much better than others, and during recent years lying-in wards of improved construction have been provided in connection with several newly erected military female hospitals. The earlier plans of the new female hospitals consist of a block formed of two pavilions joined end to end, with a passage across the block to separate the pavilions from each other. Each pavilion contains a single ward, with its own separate offices and nurses’ rooms. It has windows on opposite sides, with one large end window, and abundant means of warming and ventilation. One pavilion is devoted to general cases, the other to lying-in cases. The midwifery ward has space for twelve beds. Each bed has a superficial area of ninety square feet, and a cubic space of 1,350 feet. The wards are fifteen feet high.