Deprivation of visitors, if it could be done, would be very salutary. In the great London Civil Hospitals, men and women visit the male venereal wards; women alone the female wards (and melancholy things are the visiting hours there; here and there a heart-broken mother, abundance of prostitutes, and no lack of procuresses. A firm and vigilant Head Nurse will sometimes refuse admitting one of the two latter sorts to some patient, whom she knows they are endeavouring to make sure of again; but as the rules admit female visitors, and she is by rights only entitled to eject a visitor whose behaviour is disorderly in the ward, the Head Nurse can only do this in point of fact by straining the rules, and cannot do it often). The female visitors of the male venereal wards are usually, on the average, much less disreputable than those to the equivalent female wards; and are generally wives, mothers, and sisters, seldom prostitutes. There can be no doubt, however, that it would be much better if the patients of neither male nor female foul wards were allowed visitors, unless in the comparatively very rare cases of extreme danger; it would, in that case, be necessary that the Hospital should supply them with linen, and either supply them with groceries or forbid their receiving them from without. In various essential respects the patients of a Military Hospital are different from those of a Civil Hospital. Were it possible to prevent all female visitors to the wards, except in dangerous cases, this would be best. If the existing rules or practice do not compel the sentries to refuse entrance to all disorderly women, however orderly their behaviour, such a rule, at any rate, should be enforced. And if all visitors, male and female, including, of course, soldiers, could be refused admittance to the venereal wards, always excepting cases of great danger, it would be very desirable. At all events, it would be very desirable to have all female visitors, without exception, excluded from these wards. These things are, I do consider, very important. But I would not press them, if refused. Let the female service obtain, please God (I do not write these words _pro formâ_,--if possible, I feel every day more intensely how solely it is to Him we must trust in this difficult work,--the more so that, if possible, I feel every day more intensely the importance of, if He grants it success, improving secular Hospital nursing, leaving the English Sisterhoods, which will always have great advantages, and, I believe, great disadvantages, with reference to Hospital nursing, to take their share in this great field, which has plenty of room for both), let, I say, the female service obtain a firm footing in the Army Hospitals, and with it, and by cautious degrees, sundry ameliorations will creep in insensibly as to decorum among other things. Those solemn beautiful words I have always felt so full of meaning to us, “In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.”