[Sidenote: Query as to Numbering Patients.] 2. Military as well as Medical advice should also be taken upon the following point: In most, not all, the great London Hospitals the patients, whose names are on their bed-tickets, are called by the numbers 1, 2, 3, &c., suspended over each bed; sometimes a patient’s name is never heard in the ward. Now, very possibly, this would not at all do in a Military Hospital, and, if so, there is not another word to be said about it. Otherwise, very few things so effectually save time, as the numbering plan. (In Civil Hospitals it is also excellent in other ways, of much less consequence in a Military Hospital, which will never, I conclude, be afflicted with “gentlemen,” Mr. So-and-So, and Master So-and-So, which latter inscription is frequently to be read on the letters of little boys in Hospitals, whose friends, on visiting days, also enquire for them by that title). But few things, I repeat, so effectually save time as numbering instead of naming the patients (names, of course, to be on bed-tickets). If, however, the officers consider it “unsoldierly,” give it up at once. [Sidenote: Regulations as to Swearing.] 3. The regulations lately in force contained in plain strong language prohibition of swearing and indecent language in Hospitals; they are quoted from the Articles of War. It would be well to retain this in any new Regulations; and the retention of this Rule is not the less important when women are put in charge of Military wards, since, though it is not their business to maintain discipline, it is their duty to call in those whose duty it is when discipline is infringed. And it is important that this prohibition of swearing and foul language should not be looked upon as an individual or collective crotchet, or female innovation, but remain the rule of the Service. Such language would never be used in the Nurse’s presence unless by her own fault. But it should be unheard in the ward, whether she is in it or not. The old definite words should be transcribed. [Sidenote: Conclusion.] I do not like writing any part of the above, not because it can, in any sense, be said to strain the necessary principle of reserve, save for strictly business purposes, as to all which is, strictly speaking, Hospital business, but because of the extreme caution necessary as to this sort of topics. Still life is so uncertain that the possible introduction of permanent Female Service into Army Hospitals has determined me on writing what I had rather not have written. ADDITIONAL HINTS AS TO PAVILION HOSPITALS SUGGESTED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LARIBOISIÈRE HOSPITAL AT PARIS. I.--_Ventilation._