SEACLIFF FIRE

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23973, 14 June 1943, Page 6

SEACLIFF FIRE

Sir,—l read in “The Press” the disconcerting report of the commission of inquiry regarding the disastrous fire at the Seacliff Mental Hospital. In the same paper it was reported that the Government had made available the sum of £6OOO for poultry research at the poultry unit at the Lincoln College, “in the meantime,” which of course makes it clear that other sums will follow. Is it necessary just at present to build fancy poultry houses or, indeed, any poultry houses at all? “The problems of the Seacliff site are abnormal,” I quote from the leading article in “The Press." Yet the Government makes no mention of having any sum of money available for the reconstruction of the mental hospital. Surely the poor unfortunates who have to spend their lives in an institution, to say nothing of the nurses and attendants who are responsible for them, are of more importance than egg production, and research work into the poultry industry.—Yours, etc., DORA E. CAMPBELL. Geraldine, June 10, 1943.