Women only of the character, efficiency, and responsibility of Head Nurses in other Hospitals should be admitted into Military ones. They should have charge and be responsible for all that pertains to the bed-side of the patient; for his cleanliness, and that of his linen, bed, and utensils; for all the minor dressings, not performed by Surgeons or Dressers; for the administration of medicines, and of the meals; for the obedience of the patient and orderlies to the orders of the Medical Officer. They should receive the orders of the latter, and always attend him in his visits. Till the above is done by women, the same want of discipline, now to be observed in Military Hospitals, and often already noticed, will continue,--such is my firm belief, the result of much experience. [Sidenote: Duties which should be left to men.] There will be abundance left for the Ward Master or Serjeant to do in taking Military charge of the Hospital and its inhabitants, in being Office Clerk, &c., _i. e._, keeping the Admission books, making States, Returns, Accounts, and other documents, without his being Head-Nurse, without his superintending the Orderlies at the bed-side, his administering medicines, &c., which can only be satisfactorily done by a woman. And, when done by her, there will still be ample work for two men, where one does now the work of three. The first should do the Military part, the second should compound, take charge of Medical and Surgical stores, of Returns and Accounts connected with these; and, where there is no Purveyor, of Purveyor’s and Barrack stores, provisions, cooking, washing, diets, and extras, including Returns and Accounts connected with these. As it is, there is one Hospital Serjeant, who is Ward-Master, Serjeant, Steward, Clerk, Dispenser, Purveyor’s Clerk, and Head-Nurse--a kind of “Maître Jacques,” as in Molière’s “Avare.” One man cannot do all these things. A Female should be the Head-Nurse--a Serjeant should be the Serjeant and Clerk--a Ward-Master the Steward, Dispenser, Ward-Master, and Purveyor’s Clerk. And here I must deplore the confusion unavoidable in these definitions of proposed duties, while we have no separate system for Regimental and General Hospitals. What Dr. Menzies declared, in his evidence as to the General Hospitals at Scutari, is strictly true, and one great cause of our failure at Scutari:--“I have followed the general rules for Regimental Hospitals, so far as I could.” While Regimental Hospitals are what they are, females never can be admitted there. On the other hand, if General Hospitals be established, one happy consequence will be that the cooking and washing will be taken out of the hands of the Hospital Serjeant, and regularly organized, it is hoped under a Captain-Superintendent of Orderlies. All Purveyor’s and Barrack stores, that is, Hospital stores and furniture will, it is hoped, fall under the charge of a Steward; Medical and Surgical stores under that of an Apothecary.