The Ministry of Reconstruction has begun to issue a series
of twopenny pamphlets, the first of which explains The Aims of Re- construction, while others, like the second pamphlet on Housing in England and Wales, will deal with specific problems that have to be faced after the war. The housing question is very urgent indeed ; it is what may be called the " key " question of all, since the im- provement of the public health and of public morals depends very largely upon the better housing of the people. We are glad to learn that a women's committee has been appointed to confer with workmen's wives, and find out how they would like their cottages to be planned. In this strange topsy-turvy world no Minister before Dr. Addison ever thought of doing such an obviously wise thing as to ask the cottage people what sort of a cottage they really wanted. It need cost no more to build a pretty and convenient oottage than to put up the jerry-builder's highly inconvenient and hideous brink box.
Previous page
