2. Use more water to clean the floor, which will probably require two dry brushings.
3. Clean the brooms and pails.
III. Annually.
1. Throw warm, not hot, water on the floor, and brush firmly and quickly, wet and dry. A very little soda in each pailful will be an improvement. More than very little will injure the flooring.
[A new cloth, which it is economical to cut from a great piece which makes into some or many dozens, should be steeped for a night in a pail once filled with boiling water, and in the morning rinsed and wrung several times in clean cold water, then used at once. Two or three new cloths can be steeped in the same pail.]
III.—Cautions in Hospital-Building.—Often repeated, but oftener neglected.
1. Wherever practicable build the hospital on arches; but, for the sake of discipline, they should be locked up.
2. If practicable, let the laundry, if served by women, be removed from sight of the place where the patients take exercise, and of the ward windows.
3. In a Civil Hospital it is objectionable to give the female patients right to take exercise in corridors which the officers and servants have constantly to traverse to go to and from the wards. In a Military Hospital it is of little comparative disadvantage that the patients should do this, although,
4. In building a hospital it might be well worth while to contrive that the covered space, essential to give the patients power of taking exercise, should be used solely for that purpose.