GOOD HEALTH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 39, 16 February 1914, Page 4

GOOD HEALTH.

Wellington's "Evening Post" remarks that ono of the subjects before the Medical Congress was town-planning. Shrewd thinkers, in and out of the medical profession, have a belief that town-planning will be the basis of public health and the great featurej of public policy in countries where statesmanship rules. Any social or health campaign has to begin with the town plan, which covers streets and houses and spaces\for play. The great enemy of tuberculosis is the intelligent town plan, designed against the dirt and darkness of huddlement. In the new garden suburbs of London and re-planned towns of Europe and America, the great purpose is to give a maximum of brightness and healthiness to a family. Individuality is encouraged; people are drawn out of deeply-worn ruts, and discover. with pleasant surprise, unsuspected glories of this rolling globe and the firmament. The plan makes for better homes and better home life. It makes for a higher citizenship, by the growth of that honorable pride of place, and thus the foundations of national patriotism are strengthened. The proper town plan promises to be a priceless boon as a remedy for some of the evils incidental to compound civilisation and a high specialisation of industry. The specialisation has gone so far that people are content to leave the thinking to a few. People are rather human beings—menunits of crowds —than men and women, with individuality. The first great reform must be with the town plan. Thus armed, the real basic humanitarian can have hopes for a

superman and a supenvoman some day.