LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
EMERGENCY HOUSES
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a member of the Health Committee of the City Council of this city I shall be most obliged if you will kindly inform me where details can be obtained of the Emergency Houses advocated by you. I will gladly pay for specifications, &c., but do not know from where they can be obtained.— INVe are sorry to say that we cannot inform our correspondent where details can be obtained of the Emergency Houses advocated in these columns. We wish we could ; but it is this very inability which has made us express so strong a demand that the Government should hold an exhibition in which firms and private inventors should be encouraged by good prizes to put up examples of Vmergeney Houses by means of various new and old forms of construction. We believe that the best emergency house will prove to be that which is adopted by most Governments for War purposes, and also by settlers, who are necessarily emergency house builders, all the world over—that is, the wooden house,. When a Government has to provide emergency housing for a large body of soldiers it almost always falls back on wooden Inaments. There are also, of course, corrugated iron and steel houses, and also cheap forms of light, reinforced concrete which do well. We hope to return to this subject at an early date.—En. Spectator]
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