22 } there are { 1 Sister. 24 } { 2 Nurses. { 1 Sister. 30 ″ { 2 Nurses. { 1 Scrubber. { 1 Sister. 34 ″ { 3 Nurses. { 1 Sister. 40 ″ { 3 Nurses. { 1 Helper. In the Lariboisière Hospital at Paris, where the wards hold 32 beds, 1 Sister, 1 Nurse, and 2 Orderlies on the Men’s side, 1 Sister, 2 Nurses, and 1 Orderly on the Female side, serve the ward efficiently. [Sidenote: (6.) Same Number of Men will not do same amount of Work as an equal Number of Women would.] (6.) One woman does the work of more than a man in a Hospital, speaking of the duties discharged by Under Nurses in Civil Hospitals; for men are not accustomed to these duties in England, as women are from their childhood. From this it is by no means to be inferred that women of the class of Under Nurses in Civil Hospitals should be employed in Military Hospitals, which unquestionably they should not. But it is to be inferred that the work will not be done efficiently, with a smaller number of men than would be employed of women. [Sidenote: (7.) Hospital Attendance an entirely new subject in the Army.] (7.) The question of attendance has scarcely been intelligently considered in the Army at all. And hardly any practical answer has yet been given to such questions as the above. I conceive it to be practically impossible to serve 4 wards, as proposed at Netley, viz., of 9 beds each, with 1 Head Nurse, 4 Orderlies. For, as has been said, one bad case in each ward, makes this economy as unmanageable as nine. [Sidenote: (8.) Hospital Wards in the Army little else than Barrack-Rooms at present.] (8.) A ward in a Military Hospital now may often be little else than a barrack-room, with an Inspection by a Medical Officer twice a day. It is designed to make it by the new Regulations into a place where the sick must be and always will be suitably attended. But this cannot be done by such a scheme as-- 1 Female Head Nurse } to { 50 Patients, in (say) 6 Orderlies } { 6 Netley Wards; though this attendance would be more than sufficient for 50 cases in one ward; but such a ward is considered in a sanitary sense too large. Two wards of 30 beds each on the same floor would be efficiently served by such a Staff, however; and there would be no sanitary objection. [Sidenote: (9.) Regulation as to 1 Orderly to 10 Patients requires modifying.] (9.) The Regulation number of one Orderly to ten patients therefore requires modifying. Practically it is broken every day and in the extraordinary manner above mentioned, which gives the most critical cases to be attended by the rawest hands. [Sidenote: (10.) One Orderly should be the _Frotteur_.]