If a supply of hot water can be obtained by turning a cock, this is best. Provision should be made in the ward scullery for keeping poultices warm which is every now and then wanted. It is not right to wash eating-vessels and poultice pans, &c., in the same sink; and this should be considered in arranging the scullery. If each ward washes its own bandages, which it ought not to do, the second sink will come in usefully for this. It is worth while, in enforcing extreme simplicity, to prevent jumbling together eating-vessels and things for wounds and sores. Sinks are infinitely most handy when made deep, somewhat in the shape of broad round basins, with hole at bottom; it saves much splashing and mess; the cock to overhang full the middle of the sink. The Wall against the sink should have some protection. Such a scullery, with complete efficient simple apparatus for its various purposes, places for washing up and cleaning, and for ward purposes and cookery, so that the Nurse can warm the drinks, prepare fomentations, &c., without jostling the Orderlies, who are washing up or cleaning, will be a very great comfort, simplification, and promoter of order, cleanliness, efficiency, and work. At one corner a decent little table for Orderlies’ meals, above it their separate safes for their bread, cold rations, &c., &c.; each to have and keep his key; each to have his locker. Each floor and ward will require a scullery. It is far better for each ward to contain its own appointments--and all the other stores to be together, apart. On the second floor might be the Ward-Master’s room; _vice_ the Nurse’s room. [Sidenote: 12. Nurses’ Sleeping Quarters.] 12. Nurses’ quarters, if we are driven to their not sleeping near their wards, should be adjoining the Matron’s two rooms, and separate water-closet, in a part of the Hospital as central as can be managed without trespassing on our betters. I would simplify these quarters as much as possible--either a series of very small rooms, or one great space partitioned off each into a little cell, with a window, bed, washing table, chest of drawers, and a very small wardrobe, with space to hang up three or four gowns, deep enough for another row for shawl, &c., at top a shelf for bonnet and caps, at bottom a deep drawer for boots and shoes. These things will be a convenient riddance to the chest of drawers, and comfort to the women. In each cell very strong hooks to hang up and air a little gowns taken off at night, and one or two chairs. The nurses must wash their hands, &c., in the rooms off their wards, and I think it must be understood as a rule that they leave their quarters in the morning and return to them at night. Optional carpet.