4 NOVEMBER 1932, Page 18

A CLEAR CASE FOR ECONOMY.

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sui,7--May. I support Dr. S. E. White's contention that the proposed hostels, apart from lunaey "adniinistratiori,. would prove to be a valuable 'economy ?

At present, it is officially proposed to build two new asylums at a cost of over 21,000,000. Health hostels, whose keynote would be prevention. and not detention, could be constructed at far less cost ; and in a short space of time the recovery rate of mental illness would show a rapid rise—thus the saving effected would be two-fold.-7I am, Sir, &c.,

FRANCIS J. WHITE, Secretary, National Society for Lunacy Law Reform. Avenue Chambers, Southampton Row, London, W .C.1.