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The Health of the Nation, by Colonel Fremantle (Philip Allan.

3s. 6d.), republished with additions to the 1927 edition made necessary by recent legislation, is a good com- panion volume to The Housing of the Nation by the same author, who is the well-known doctor and Conservative Member of Parliament. Both he and Mr. Neville Chamberlain (who writes a preface) make it clear that social reform has nothing to do with Socialism. Every modern Government must look after the health of its people. This volume is non-political and non-controversial ; an excellent conspectus of the difficult problems (how to deal with mental deficiency, for instance) which must first be understood and then solved by the democracies of the future.