BUSHEY PARK SCHOOL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—While
reading of the kindly thought of English monarchs of long ago, for the education of poor boys, of which Mr. Wilkins's book, Great English Schools, tells us, we might, I think, remember one similar instance in very recent times.
During the War, the King lent White Lodge, Bushey Park, and its grounds to the Canadian Red Cross, who erected admirable hospital buildings. After the War, the buildings were handed over to the King, who in turn offered them, together with the Lodge and the grounds, to the L.C.C. (as Education Authority for London) for the use of delicate London schoolboys, who can be accommodated to the number of three hundred.
The offer was accepted, and boys are sent for periods of from four to six weeks, and under competent medical !men and teachers have the full benefits of the open-air school which the Spectator rightly advocates for normal children.
One could wish that there were a sufficiency of such insti- tutions as the Bushey Park School to meet the needs of all school children requiring such treatment, especially at this time, when, in areas affected by industrial troubles, little children are suffering so terribly.—! am, Sir, &c.,
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