BRITISH SPAS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reference to your article on ".British Spas as Health Resorts," there is a point which I think needs stressing and that is the danger to health middle-aged and old people run when travelling or staying on the Continent. The germs of all sorts of deadly diseases lurk in the dirty food, and the dirty and ill-ventilated railway carriages and hotels.
Influenza of a peculiarly deadly type is for instance endemic in Switzerland, and woe betide the husband or wife stricken with influenza and complications in a foreign hotel with an ignorant, careless, foreign doctor in charge of the case. His or her partner will be left to mourn. I speak as one who knows, and I advise people thinking of deserting British health resorts for foreign ones to think again.—I am, Sir, &c.,
PETER BLUNDELL.
29 (F2) Eversfield Place, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
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