This concentration of what is wanted for dressing and washing wounds, and for attending the Surgeon in his inspection of them, and of what is at once wanted on any bleeding, fit, &c., is very useful; all the more from its being in a compact portable form, which can be thus successively carried to each bed. An English carpenter would make a lighter and handier thing. Brass basins, which are there used, are not desirable. Of course, one must be most especially anxious not to introduce any novelty, particularly any foreign novelty, faster than can be avoided, and we may consider it better either to leave the general system unaltered of rushing on some emergency to the dressing table drawer, or closet, and thence bringing successively the things wanted, or at all events not to extend concentration further than the excellent plan, so far as it goes, of the London Hospital, where each Head Nurse attends the Surgeons with a large basket in her hand, containing most of the dressings required, spunges, and one or two little matters also usefully at hand. The _apparat_ has the advantage of carrying with itself the basins used for washing. In the Military Hospital of Vienna a tray attends each Surgeon, without basins. [Sidenote: 10. Nurse’s Room.] 10. It is important to have the Nurse’s room opening at once into the ward, and, upon the whole, I should incline to its having but one door, although it may be thought better there should be a second, so that she can leave her room without being seen to do so by the patients. Also, by all means, let the scullery be opposite the Nurse’s room, and not between the ward and the room. As an invariable Hospital rule, rather more than elsewhere in Military Hospitals, publicity may be considered to be a very great police, and a still greater protection. It is far better that twenty-four patients should see the Nurse’s door than one or none; and that her room should open full upon the ward than into an intervening scullery. In contemplating a Military Hospital, we contemplate a place through which, one year with another, all characters, including a few of the vilest, pass. These are not theoretical matters. The more repulsive the subject, the more prevention is better than cure. Guard against too many closets, sinks, &c., &c., &c. [Sidenote: Lavatory.] At the end of the ward there should be a lavatory, with a row, or two opposite rows, of white earthenware basins fixed in a stand, with outlet tubes and plugs: each basin should have a hot and cold water-pipe: and there should be not less than one to each four beds. There should also be in the lavatory a hot and cold water-pipe, from which a portable bath can be filled. [Sidenote: Water-closet.]