24 JUNE 1943, Page 14

SIR,—Your correspondent, Mrs. Sykes, has surely overlooked the fact that

it is .the great .hurden of .a majority of aged people :falling on the younger generation which is the most alarming aspect of our declining birth-rate.—Yours faithfully, (Mrs.) C. hi. ASRURY. 42 Trevor Drive, Gt. ,Crosby, Liverpool, 23: