[Illustration: |Name|Age|Residence|Married or Single|No. of Pregnancy|Date when last Child was Born|Date of Admission|Period of Gestation|Date of Commencement of Labour|Duration of Labour, in Hours|Nature of Delivery|Presentations|Complications of Delivery|Operation, if any|Accidents or Diseases, if any, after Delivery|Nature of Accident or Disease|Date of Attack|Duration|Result and Date|Births: Single, Twins or Triplets|Infant Born Living or Dead|Sex of Child|If infant Dead after Birth, Cause of Death, and Date|Date of Removal from Lying-in Department|No. of Days in Lying-in Department|Date of Discharge from Institution|Remarks|] NOTE.—Should any death take place in a woman discharged from the institution within a month from the time of her delivery, a record of this death, its date, and cause, to be entered in the column of Remarks. In the same column should be entered remarks on abnormal configuration, or on abnormal conditions of health which might influence the result of the delivery. For all this provision must be made. There are scarcely two points in common between a lying-in institution and a general hospital. 2. _How many Wards to a Floor?_ Only one four-bed ward, or four one-bed wards in a group. 3. _How many Floors to a Pavilion (hut or cottage)?_ Two, at most. In every alternate pavilion better only one floor, unless the pavilions be so far apart as to cover an extent of ground which would make administration almost impossible, and cost fabulous. _How many Beds to a Pavilion or Hut?_ There would therefore be no more than eight beds, and in each alternate pavilion no more than four beds. _How many Pavilions or Huts to a Lying-in Institution?_ Not more than four two-floored pavilions, two one-floored pavilions, and two two-floored delivery pavilions; unless, indeed, building space can be given, with all its cost and administrative difficulties. 4. _How much space to the Bed?_ The _minimum_ of ward cubic space for a lying-in woman, even where the delivery ward is, as it ought always to be, separate, is 2,300 cubic feet in a single-bed ward, and 1,900 cubic feet in a four-bed ward. [In ordinary army wooden huts, where the air comes in at every seam, this space may be less.] As it is a principle that superficial area signifies more than cubic space, the surface of floor for each bed should not be less than 150 square feet per bed in a four-bed ward, and in a single-bed ward not less than 190 square feet, because this is the total available space for all purposes in a single-bed ward. This space has to be occupied, not only by the lying-in woman and her infant, and perhaps a pupil midwife washing and dressing it at the fire, but often by the midwife, an assistant, possibly the medical officer, and pupil midwives. In a four-bed ward there is space common to all the beds. _The Delivery Ward._