The closing of the Peckham Health Centre is not far
short of a disaster for a considerable area of South London. It was not, of course, a health centre in the sense of the National Health Service Act ; if it had been it would no doubt have received a large subvention ; it was rather of the nature of a family club, with attention to health as an essential glansideration. It is not so long since the Prime Minister and many of his Cabinet colleagues visited the centre and posted themselves in all its activities, but whatever interest it may have inspired in them did not express itself in assistance capable of saving the centre. However, there appears to be a possibility that some of the activities of the centre may continue in another form under the L.C.C. It would be lamentable if all the experience that has been garnered at Peckham for a
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