Considering the awkwardness of illness among Nurses, when it did occur in a Military Hospital, it would be worth while that, adjoining the little ward, there should be a little room for any one infectious case which might occur; _e. g._, supposing one Nurse ill in the ward with bronchitis, it would not do to put another with small-pox into the ward,--at least it would be very impolitic. The ward should have a water-closet and a little sink of its own, and a little cell, but with window and fireplace, for the attending Nurse to lie down in. When not used, once a month’s, or week’s at the most, cleaning by a charwoman would be enough. It should be always clean and ready for use. In the Civil Hospitals, few years pass without sundry Head-Nurses and Nurses dying, not a few Nurses being warded, and sundry Head-Nurses ill in their rooms. The peculiarity of Military Hospitals makes this little preparation for what is certain every now and then to occur seem desirable and economical; to hire lodgings in the neighbouring town would be in all ways a worse plan. [Sidenote: 13. Classification of Cases.] 13. Endeavour, if possible, to obtain a classification of the severe and non-severe cases, and let the Nurses be only appointed to the wards of severe cases. The convalescent cases to be successively removed to the convalescent pavilions, whether they bear or not that name. No convalescent ward in any of the floors of the Pavilions to be served by Nurses. [Sidenote: 14. Nurses to be called by the Names of their Wards.] 14. It will be found excellent in many respects not to allow the Nurses’ names to be used in the ward of the Hospital, or among each other, so far as the Matron takes cognizance of. In the great London Hospitals the name of a Nurse is never heard, except occasionally to each other as a solace, partly very natural, partly harmless vanity. She is Sister or Nurse of such and such a ward. In hasty parlance she is distinguished from the others by the name of the ward only. In it she is always addressed as Sister or Nurse. Thus a Sister of St. Thomas’s Hospital, whose services in the War Hospitals of the East I can never forget, was always at St. Thomas’s spoken of out of her ward as Sister of George, or, more commonly, Sister George; and spoken to quickly or called to in a hurry as George. All this, the only course of all the great and, I believe, of the smaller London Hospitals, works excellently, in many ways. [Sidenote: 15. Foul Linen--how to be Disposed of.]