A VILLAGE CENTRE FOR DISABLED MEN.
(To Ise Eineon or rut SPECTATOR."] Sui,—You kindly allowed ins to plead last Christmas for a rather ambitious proposal, to provide for our disabled ex- Service men a Country Centre of Healing and Training. I am very glad that the principles upon which that proposal was founded have now received the sanction and approval of the Government, and liberal allowances have been granted no, which we hope will suffice in time to make the first Centre here at Enham in Hampshire entirely self-supporting. Before actually opening this work in England, the Council thought it wise to make a detailed investigation of a large number of Country Centres for treatment and training of disabled soldiers in Italy and France. I should like, if I may, on behalf of my colleagues and myself, who are undertaking the work at Enham, to acknowledge with gratitude the support, both moral and financial, which has been given to this work during the long period it has been in preparation, and which has now enabled us to make a beginning in this beautiful spot. The men have now begun to arrive, and we are starting work upon a modest scale. But we still look with confidence to the many friends of the disabled man throughout the country to enable Us to realize the complete project. The British Red Cross Society have made a generous grant of funds for the medical side, but we need housing accommodation and workshops for at least five hundred men.—! am, Sir, Ix..
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