Now, why should not the _Commissariat purvey_ the Hospital with food? perform the whole of Purveyor's office, No. 1? The practice of drawing _raw_ rations, as here seen, seems invented on purpose to waste the time of as many Orderlies as possible, who stand at the Purveyor's office from 4 to 9 A.M. drawing the patients' breakfast, from 10 to 12, drawing their dinner--and to make the patients' meals as late as possible--because it is impossible to get the diets, thus drawn, cooked before 3 or 4 o'clock. The scene of confusion, delay, and disappointment where all these raw diets are being weighed out by twos, and threes, and fours, is impossible to conceive, unless one has seen it, as I have, day after day. And one must have been, as I have, at all hours of the day and night in this Hospital to conceive the abuses of this want of system--raw meat, drawn too late to be cooked, standing all night in the wards, etc., etc., etc. Why should not the Commissariat send _at once_ the amount of beef and mutton, etc., etc., required into the kitchens, without passing through this intermediate stage of drawing by Orderlies? Let a Commissariat Officer reside here--let the Ward-Masters make a total from the Diet Rolls of the Medical Men--so many hundred full diets--so many hundred half-diets--so many hundred spoon diets, and give it over to the Commissariat Officer the day before. The next day the _whole_ quantity, the _total_ of all the Ward-Masters' totals, is given into the kitchens direct. It should be all carved in the kitchens on hot plates, and at meal-times the Orderlies come to fetch it for the patients--carry it through the wards, where an Officer tells it off to every bed, according to the Bed-ticket, on which he reads the Diet, hung up at every bed. The time and confusion thus saved would be incalculable. Punctuality is now impossible; the food is half-raw, and often many hours after time. Some of the portions are all bone, whereas the meat should be boned in the kitchen, according to the plan now proposed, and the portions there carved contain meat only. Pray consider this. There might be, _besides_, an Extra Diet Kitchen to each division; a teapot, issue of tea, sugar, etc., to every mess, for which stores make the Ward-Master responsible; arrow-root, beef-tea, etc., to be issued from the Extra Diet Kitchens. But into these details it is needless to enter to you.