6. Should Orderlies have a Day-room in Pavilion?
6. If the Orderlies do not sleep in the Pavilion they should not have a day-room.
7. Scullery to each Ward.
7. To each ward should be attached a scullery, small, but not too small, which only muddles things and work, well provided with cold, and, if possible, with warm water; and it should be law that no patient enters the scullery unless sent there by the Nurse to help in washing up, &c.; and, as a rule, they ought not to be sent there. Make them useful in the ward; keep the scullery for the Nurse and Orderlies.
8. What should be done in the Scullery?
8. From this scullery let the Nurse get the water she requires—Orderlies ditto.
Let the Orderlies eat their meals in it, if they do not eat them away from the ward. The food of the Orderlies is generally different from that of most of the patients, and it answers better for them to eat their meals not under the noses of the patients. In emergencies, of no rare occurrence, the Orderly must watch a patient and eat his dinner at the same time, and so must the Nurse; but, as a rule, it is undoubtedly better that ward-servants should not eat under the observation of the patients.
In the scullery all the cleaning must take place, which is not done in the lavatory.
In the scullery extras are to be warmed, drinks ditto, hot-bricks heated, water-bottles filled, &c., &c., &c., and none of these things are to be done at the ward-fire.
Poultice-making.