(4) The total inefficiency of the Hospital Orderly System as now is. The French have a permanent system of Orderlies, trained for the purpose, who do not re-enter the ranks. It is too late for us to organize this. But if the convalescents, being good Orderlies, were not sent away to the Crimea as soon as they have learnt their work--if the Commander-in-Chief would call upon the Commanding Officer of each Regiment to select ten men from each as Hospital Orderlies to form a depot here (not young soldiers, but men of good character), this would give some hope of organizing an efficient corps. Above all, that the class of Ward-Master I shall mention should be sent out from England. We require:-- (1) An effective staff of Purveyors out from England--but beyond this, (2) _A head_, some one with _authority_ to mash up the departments into uniform and rapid action. He may as well stay at home unless he have power to modify the arrangements of departments made expressly by Sir C. Trevelyan with Mr. Wreford before he came away in May. (3) We want Medical Officers. (4) Three Deputy Inspectors-General (whereas we have only one).... It is obvious from what has been said in former letters _who_, if there are two Deputy Inspector-Generals made to these Hospitals, should be made Deputy Inspector-General of this Barrack Hospital, past and present efficiency being considered. (5) We want discharged Non-Commissioned Officers, not past the meridian of life--not the Ambulance Corps, who all died of delirium tremens or cholera--but the class of men employed as Ward-Masters of Military Prisons, or as Barrack Sergeants, or Hospital Sergeants of the Guards who can be highly recommended. We want these men as Ward-Masters and Assistant Ward-Masters as Stewards. They must be under the orders of the Senior Medical Officer, removable by him; they must be well paid so as to make it worth their while,--say 5s. per day, 1st class, 2s. 6d. per day 2nd class--for they must be superior men, not the rabble we have now. (_N.B._--There are three Ward-Masters to each division of this Hospital--of which there are three--containing 800 and odd sick in each.) The book of Hospital regulations, admirable in time of peace, contains nothing for a time of war, much less a time of war like this, unexampled for calamity. The Hospital Sergeants are, of course, up in the Crimea with their regiments,--and we have nothing but such raw Corporals and Sergeants as can be spared, new to their work, to place in charge of the divisions and wards. And these Lord Raglan complains of our keeping. We must have Hospital Sergeants if there is to be the remotest hope of efficiency among the Orderlies here.