29 AUGUST 1947, Page 15

Stn,—With reference to Mr. Kenneth Bradshaw's admirable article on the

pernicious football pools, what would be valuable as a follow-up would be some evidence of the evil they do in the home, by an experienced social worker. Here is a case which has been brought to my own . notice: A demobilised carpenter has done no work for many months after winning some money in a football pool. His wife, the mother of several young children, has to go out to service to support him— unless he lives off his children's allowances. He is able bodied and