While speaking of lint, it seems a duty to state that, in some of the Military Hospitals, in certain County and even London Hospitals, and also in Workhouses, and in the practice of private Surgeons, a preparation of cotton has been recently substituted in the dressing of wounds for _charpie_ or Surgeons’ lint, properly so called. So miserable an economy at the expense of the sick is not adopted in several, at least, of the London endowed Hospitals, probably in none. For all purposes for which lint is necessary cotton fibre should be totally disused, in the army and everywhere else. It is irritating and injurious to wounds. It increases human suffering; it delays patients in Hospital, and, in doing so, of course, increases the cost which such a substitution has been intended to reduce. Nurses should be particularly careful never to use this material, which is easily distinguished, even by the touch. Any Surgeon may tell the best of it from lint by submitting it to microscopic examination, and on doing so he will readily discover that characteristic of cotton fibre which renders it so ill adapted for surgical dressings. It does not absorb the discharges from wounds, as linen lint does. The fibre is ragged instead of being smooth, and it is apt to become matted together, and to adhere to the surface and edges. [Sidenote: 18. Classification of Women.] 18. It is essential to have as few women as can efficiently do their work. Supposing the Hospital were for one thousand patients, not taking into account that some wards would probably be foul wards, where I earnestly hope female service will not be, at present at all events, introduced, and that some wards would be for slight or convalescent cases, where I hope it never will be--supposing each Nurse served seventy-five patients, supposing one Nurse, at the very least, was told off for the linen, fourteen or fifteen Nurses would serve the Hospital. I conclude the Matron to have no cognizance of the laundry. [Sidenote: Superintendent’s Store room.] The Superintendent[18] will require a store room, or at least a store closet, and hers should be well appointed. It would depend upon the other arrangements of the quarters, whether the world in general, when sent for to fetch what it wanted, enter from the same side as the door of the Superintendent’s bed-room, or from the other side. And it would depend upon the nature and amount of stores of which she had charge, in the larger Military Hospitals, whether or not she should have a Nurse told off for this also. Economy is essential; but useless fiddling over every duster or scrubbing-flannel given out, &c., &c., &c., sadly hinders the Matron’s time from more important things.