15. Arrangements should be made that foul linen remains for the least possible time out of the laundry. As regards the laundry deposits, the best plan is that of the London Hospital, where each ward has a bin of its own marked accordingly. To similar bins all the foul linen should be, at least, daily carried, unless it is judged best to receive and wash all the linen in a heap, returning numbers only to each ward. The former plan is preferable. In any case the linen of the “foul wards” should be received and washed apart. During the time, which ought to be as short as possible, between dirty linen leaving the patients and reaching the bin or bins, a large box in the scullery is making the best of a bad business--the presence of foul Hospital linen always is that--and is preferable to a closet. [Sidenote: 16. Washing Bandages.] 16. Washing bandages, a very important thing. Shall a washerwoman be told off for that particular purpose? or shall the Orderlies of each ward do it _alla meglio_? The former is the better plan; if not adopted, the Nurse must see well to the matter. [Sidenote: 17. Splints--Bandages, Lint, &c., where to be kept.] 17. It would depend upon what sort of work is usually going on in the Surgical Wards of a Military Hospital in peace whether it will be worth either a press with glass front, in which splints, pads, &c., &c., are excellently arranged, as at St. Bartholomew’s; or the pad-basket and splint-rack, which are also excellent, provided in London Hospital. The splint-rack, enabling the Surgeon at once to see and choose of all shapes and sizes, is perhaps only suited for an accident ward, and would be out of place in a military ward in peace. It may be better to have these stores entirely in some dispenser’s or store-keeper’s jurisdiction, and to let the Nurse confine herself to padding, &c., any splint sent by the Surgeon into the ward. Let our masters take exactly their own way about this. Bandages, lint, &c., &c., &c. should perhaps rest entirely with the Dispenser, otherwise it would be useful in the greater Hospitals, to have under the Matron a Nurse charged with preparing them and giving them out, writing in a book the date, amount of each, and the ward they are given to. In a small Hospital the Matron could do this herself. [Sidenote: Cotton Lint never to be used.]