AN APPEAL FOR SUNLIGHT
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,--In the early spring, when the sunlight was returning, you allowed me to appeal in your columns, in order that we might make it available for many children. Your readers were very kind and enabled us to do much, but we have done much more than our current resources warranted, for we were bound to take the unique opportunity offered at Wembley. There, on Alexandra Day, we opened our Sunlight Garden, and later our Sunlight Pavilion, which .has been crowded with visitors every afternoon since the beginning of the wonderful Tattoo. Also we opened and used the Paddock, at Hampstead, just as we used Kenwood last year. This is work, not merely for a few hundred children, but as education for the whole country. Now we must pay the necessary expenses, and for the publication of our results and for our contributions towards the solution of the coal problem. The autumn is not inappropriate ; houses are being planned and built, some aright, others utterly wrong, all over the country ; there is a demand for more hospital beds—are they to be in the shadow of death, as most are now, or where ?—and propaganda is urgently needed if anything real is to come of the Bill for smoke abatement promised, as so many have been before, for next year.
We have done urgently necessary work, but it is only a beginning. I earnestly appeal to your readers to help us in our present pressing need, which the opportunity of Wembley has involved, and which is due to no improvidence; for to refuse that chance would have been cowardly. Queen Alexandra, our Patron, brought the Finsen light to England twenty-five years ago, but only now is that candle yielding to the dawn.
Cheques should be made payable to the Marquis of Graham, our Hon. Treasurer, at 37 Russell Square, London, W.C.
C. W. SALEEDY, M.D., F.R.S.E., Chairman of Council.
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