On Tuesday the Minister of Health reported to • the
House upon the work of his Department which is multi- farious and vast. The country really has got on with its housing problem. We will not allow that private enterprise has been ousted here ; for it has not, and we hope that the dependence on Governments to arrange and even carry out everything and pay for it (out of our pockets) will diminish as we forget the War-time organi- zations when State-Socialists had their great opportunity for crushing the individual spirit. We admit that, at enormous cost, the State has helped in housing, and perhaps the need was so great, conditions so abnormal, and dependence on the State such a habit that this was necessary at the time. Mr. Chamberlain also spoke very hopefully of the progress of research into the prevention of disease. All this is cheering, but for the moment overshadowed by the statement that on June 19th the number of persons in receipt of relief " had risen to the absolutely unprecedented level of 2,305,000." On Wed- nesday the work of the Post Office was reviewed. A surplus of £6,783,000 for last year was announced.
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