[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sra,—I have seen the correspondence in the Spectator about nursing homes for people of limited means, and was interested to learn that one had lately been opened at Leicester. St. Chad's Home, Edgbaston Road, Birmingham, has been established for years, and was, I think, the first of its kind in England. It is a large house surrounded by a nice garden. On each floor there is a row of little single rooms ; there is also a large ward and an open-air ward and one or two sitting-rooms, so that when the patients are well enough they can have a change from the monotony and loneliness of their bedrooms. It always seems to me a most astonishing thing that the usual "Nursing Home," for a room in which a patient pays a large sum of money, is simply an ordinary town house, utterly un- suited for the purpose. Why cannot suitable buildings be built or a large house altered and adapted like St. Chad's at Birmingham Y—I am, Sir, &c., F. M.
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