TRANSPORT AND HEALTH.
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In his annual report, the Tuberculosis Medical'Officer of Manchester says an essential of a healthier civilization is connected with the transport system of the country.
The conditions under which the workerc in a large city are conveyed to and from their daily employment are at present far from satisfactory. Service is slow, inadequate and calculated to promote infection and lower vitality. It C24
is dear when it should be cheap, and inconveniences, restrictions and expense are incurred by any wishing to make available more modern methods of transportation. Instead of'it being made easier for an industrial community to disperse itself widely and be distributed more hygienically, the conditions, seem directed to limit these desiderata.
. As stated in the Ministry of Health's recent report on the great influenza epidemic of 1918-19 with reference to the spread of this disease We view the conditions under which out-workers are still conveyed to and from London and other largo cities with anxiety."
A greater 'anachronism than the present policy, when considered ha relation to the stage of social development to which this country has reached, it will be. hard. to find. •