=Cooking.= Cooking and the preparation of food also require supervision, for, especially among the poor, dense ignorance of these important matters prevails. Through improper cooking, wholesome, excellent food is often turned into something quite the reverse, indigestible and injurious to a high degree; or, if not ruined, it may lose so much of its food value as to be practically worthless. Thus, a hard-boiled egg or a fried egg (especially if fried on both sides) is less easy to digest than a soft-boiled one. A good piece of meat may have its entire value removed by overcooking. All nurses have had training in dietetics, and this special knowledge is of immense value in public health work, where for the most part they come in contact with a class of people whose ignorance of culinary matters is profound. =Alcohol.= The question of giving alcohol frequently arises in this work. If a doctor is in attendance, he will prescribe it or not as he chooses. But if the nurse alone is in charge of the case, and the matter is left to her decision, we feel that the ruling of the Phipps Dispensary of the Johns Hopkins Hospital is a wise one to follow—no alcohol for the consumptive under any circumstances. This means that there shall be no eggnogs, made with brandy, sherry, rum, etc.; no sherry with raw eggs—no indulgence in wine, beer, or alcoholic stimulants of any sort. =The Bedridden Patient.= When the patient is confined to bed, the nurse’s task becomes easier. Isolation, therefore better protection to the family, is more readily secured than when he wanders from room to room, leaving a trail of germs behind him. It is well to exclude from the sick-room every one except those in actual attendance upon the patient; this is especially necessary in the case of children, to whom the danger is greatest. Neighbours and friends should also be excluded, and if they refuse to consider the risk, the plea for exclusion should be made on the ground that visitors are disturbing and harmful to the patient. In the sick-room we sometimes find the young children of neighbours, whose mothers are all unconscious of the danger to which they are exposed. If through sheer indifference, the patient’s family does not exclude these children, it would then become the nurse’s duty to seek out their parents and warn them. When a patient’s household becomes indifferent to community welfare, the nurse should then extend her teachings farther afield—into the next house or block if need be—and try to protect others who are unknowingly exposed to infection.