Abstract
This title is intended to describe the much-neglected field of the economic side of ward nursing, especially in the larger hospitals. Recent magazines are filled with articles discussing in laying bricks or handling tools, and get-together principles are the order of the day, but one looks in vain for any serious discussion of the importance of efficiency in the nurse's routine or any getting together between the architect who plans the clothes closets, pantries and other ward accessories and the nurses who have to walk endless miles between them in the course of their routine work. Mr. Taylor has shown us how many unnecessary motions the bricklayer makes—how often he bends his back and moves his arms to lay a single brick. Does any one know how many unnecessary steps the ward nurse takes or how often she bends her back or lifts heavy weights? What we do know
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