LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
[Letters of the length of one of our leading -paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the apace.]
THE WOMAN'S SENIOR WAR SERVICE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR•"]
Su,—The article in the Spectator of September 28th on V.A.D.'s is based on a memorandum drawn up by the Surrey Branch of the British Red Cross Society. That memorandum is being considered by the V.A.D. Committees, and I do not wish to make any com- ment at present on the principles which it presents; but I hope that I may be allowed to bay -that "recruiting has practically ceased" is not an accurate statement. It may have done so Surrey, but from elsewhere we have a steady flow .-of recruits, the number of which has varied very little in the course of the last few months. What has varied is the demand for V.A.D. members, and the urgent need at this moment is due to the increasing number of requisitions which have been received. One Naval Hospital alone asks for three hundred nursing members, the American Military Hospitals ask for one hundred, and the number of requisitions from our own Military Hospitals is increasing equally for both musing and general service members.
Chairman, Joint Women's V.A.D. Committee. Devonshire House, W. 1.
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