17 JANUARY 1936, Page 20

SIR,—In a most apposite letter a correspondent writes that "

The younger children . . . in winter are seldom free from colds and other ailments." Such ailments, however slight as they may be in themselves, tend to undermine the stamina and general health of these children. It is, moreover, beginning to be realised that there is yet another insidious danger lurking behind their being sent away from their own village into town schools, since they are thus exposed to the risk of catching diseases from which they would otherwise be exempt, with the result that they infect others in their own villages, and thus disease is spread.—Yours faithfully,

C. LESLIE NORRIS.

Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue.