=The Nurse in Home and Dispensary.= When the staff is large and there are several nurses, it may seem advisable, upon first consideration, to assign one nurse solely to dispensary duty, and leave the others to work in the homes. It is a better plan, however, to let all the nurses combine service of both kinds, as the single nurse in the small community must do. The intimate connection between home and dispensary should never be broken—it is much too valuable. Moreover, as far as the nurse herself is concerned, the monotony of dispensary work becomes extremely wearing, and it is well to vary it with duty in the home. It is a regrettable fact that a nurse confined to mere mechanical routine, is apt to lose that fine understanding and sympathy which she needs in her work, and which is always lost whenever human beings become merely “cases.” In Baltimore this service is arranged in the following manner: There are three Municipal Dispensaries, and one other clinic, managed on the same lines, although not connected with the Health Department. These are situated at the boundary lines of two or more adjoining districts, and are thus accessible to the patients as well as the nurses of the adjacent areas. All four clinics are served by certain nurses of the Health Department, who are on duty on alternate days or alternate weeks, as the case may be. Thus, the nurse from any one district is on dispensary duty for two afternoons a week, every other week. This deprives the home of her services to only a very slight extent—a deprivation which is counter-balanced by her increased opportunities for effective work. We should never advocate any greater curtailment of home work, however, since the home, or centre of infection, is always the chief point of attack. From another standpoint it is well that the nurses combine both kinds of service. Through sickness or other reasons, it may become necessary to substitute one nurse for another, and it is an advantage to have nurses trained and able to relieve each other when necessary. =The Nurse as an Asset to the Community.= We have hitherto considered the nurse as a public health nurse, or servant of the entire community. Whether supported by public or private funds, whether connected with the Health Department or a private association, we have considered her as ready to answer all calls made upon her. We have regarded her as at the service of all physicians, dispensaries, institutions, social workers, and laymen, ready to respond to all calls without hesitation or discrimination. Her unattachment to any claims but those of the community as a whole gives her this broad field.