It remains a question for far others than women to settle, whether offensive and delirious cases are under more favourable conditions of cure when scattered in little wards, than when assembled in a large, or in several small wards. On this subject, I can only add my confirmed belief that a large airy ward, provided with a few small wards, and with complete ward attendance, is a much better place for the care and attendance of such cases, than small wards attached to the ordinary wards. 7. Avoid many holes and corners. I could _not_ recommend a dining room for patients attached to each ward, or floor, or pavilion. If there is any dining room, let all the convalescent patients of the wards not being convalescent wards, dine together in a room apart from the wards, and let the rest dine each at his bed side. If not, let each patient dine at his bed side. At the Lariboisière Hospital, each ward has a vestiary, a doubtful arrangement. The nature of a Military Hospital renders it proper to have but one vestiary under charge of some man. 8. If possible, let all foul linen be delivered daily, twice perhaps better than once daily, into the laundry, so as to remain the shortest possible time in the neighbourhood of the ward; otherwise, do what you will, foul Hospital linen will fairly, to say the ugly truth--stink, and its temporary receptacle will stink also. I would not make this temporary receptacle a room. A large chest in the scullery, a region under constant purification by fire and air, would be, as already hinted, p. 88, the least bad place for an accumulation inevitable to all Hospitals, but which should accumulate for as little time as possible. 9. Provide from the first room for storing and issuing dried clean linen, as well as laundry room. 10. In badly-planned Hospitals artificial ventilation is an excellent auxiliary for expelling the foul air, engendered in the ward, especially at night; but windows only can be relied upon for introducing good air. Let Hospitals, therefore, be so constructed as to admit of opening one or more windows as much as possible all the year round, with as little chance of draught as may be to individual patients, which can be done by providing double windows, opening above and below, or by some similar expedient. NOTE ON CONTAGION AND INFECTION.