I. Ventilation 118–120 Artificial Ventilation never freshens a Ward II. Oiled Boards versus Parquets 120–124 Cleaning polished and oiled Boards much less laborious, and freshens the Ward much more than the _frottage_ of _Parquets_. Mode of Cleaning them at Berlin 122–124 III. Ten Cautions in Building Hospital Pavilions 124–127 Size of Wards. Our own Regimental Hospitals extraordinary for their many holes and corners 125 Casualty Wards 126 “CONTAGION” AND “INFECTION” DEFINED 128–132 Idea of “Contagion” invented by Men to excuse themselves for the neglect of all Sanitary arrangements 128 In the ordinary sense of the word, no such thing as “Contagion” 129 Nor as _inevitable_ “Infection” 130 “Infection” and Incapable Management, or Bad Construction, convertible terms 131 “Epidemics” do not _spread_--they develop themselves in Constitutions made ripe for them by Sanitary neglects 131 Note on certain “Observations” by Sir John Hall 132, 133 * * * * * THOUGHTS SUBMITTED AS TO AN EVENTUAL NURSES’ PROVIDENT FUND 1–19 Actual Wages and Prospects of Nurses 1–3 Some further Provision desirable 4–6 Of what Nature? 6–15 With regard to Kind? 6–8 With regard to Persons? 8 With regard to Objects? 9–15 Material Objects? 9–12 Children, in the case of Nurses, a Temptation to Petty Dishonesty and taking Bribes 11, 12 Sanitary Objects? 13 Moral Objects? 13–15 Hospitals not places for Penitents 14, 15 Rules to be followed in giving Assistance 15–17 Prospects of Eventual Support 18, 19 Note as to the Number of Women employed as Nurses in Great Britain 20, 21 Tables of Ages, &c. 21 Note as to Teaching Nursing--Institution at Madras 22, 23 * * * * *