We print elsewhere a letter drawing attention to the nevi
London Council of Social Service, which has been set up, with the Lord Mayor as president, to extend this excellent movement through Greater London. Nowhere is the co-operation of private citizens- with the municipal officials more necessary than in our densely populated boroughs, where, for want of personal knowledge and interest, there is much overlapping, confusion, and waste. Voluntary work on behalf of the children, the mothers, the sick and the poor, should be encouraged in every possible way, but it needs to be wisely. directed. Charit- able organisations too often compete with one another mernowingly, and with the municipal agencies. The idea under- lying the Social Service movement, of which Hampstead was a pioneer, is that all engaged in such work, whether elected councillors or private persons, whether paid or unpaid, should pool their knowledge and experience and co-operate through a Council in each borough. There are already seventeen such Councils in Greate r London, and the establishment of a central Council for the wholo of the area should stimulate the movement.
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