Note 4 — Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and in War.

The Extra Diet Kitchens must, it is necessary to state, be under a separate roof from the General Kitchens, as long as the present system (or no-system) of cooking exists. But the sooner it is altered the better. There should be one kitchen only. But the Nurse should always superintend the administering of the Diets. She is unquestionably the proper person, also, to administer the medicines, &c. The Orderlies, to be of any use, must act under the direction of the Head-Nurse and not independently. It would seem hardly necessary to enunciate such a self-evident proposition.