PLAY AREA OR MOTOR PARK
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —I was astounded to read that it is intended to take the playground in front of the hospital and make it into a motor park. Once our children could play with safety in the streets. Motor traffic made this too dangerous for the little ones, our future citizens. Now they are taking our playgrounds. Where are the children to go for health and safety? We have no backyard, and those who have to live in flats are even worse off. For years the hospital playground has been a Godsend to mothers. During six months when my husband was in the hospilal, I left my children there regularly when I was visiting the wards. I knew they were safe in the caretaker's hands. And there I rested myself in the sunshine
after leaving the sick beds. Mothers and children ,use the playground. I hope that the board will not take it away. There is, I am sure, ample room for parking cars for the doctors in the grounds. Patients do not have cars. Surely children should come first.— I am, etc., MOTHER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 10
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