Clean living can damage health

CONCERNS are being expressed that the various microbes which infect the human body are beginning to win the fight against antibiotics.

Could it be that humans are beginning to suffer from too much hygiene (like pre-packed food) and too much pampering (like central heating), so that we fail to allow our immune systems to develop as they should?

I would not advocate omitting to bath or shower for 12 weeks as some, it seems, claim to do, but to eat a peck of dirt before we die used to be a health mantra when I was a child.

In praise of NHS

From: Jackie Bush, Primley Park Crescent, Leeds.

THESE days the NHS is having a very bad press. People are very quick to criticise. However, my experience of the NHS has been very different.

My husband recently spent over four weeks as an inpatient in the Community Intermediate Care Unit at Seacroft Hospital. The care he received was phenomenal. Every member 
of staff was extremely professional, hard working, caring and patient.

Nothing was too much trouble for anyone and all members of staff, without exception, were friendly and approachable.

Archaic law

From: Mrs W Abbott, Boulsworth Avenue, Kingston Upon Hull.

AT her trial, Vicky Pryce tried to claim marital coercion in an attempt to avoid a custodial sentence. The reason it failed was because she did not have any credible evidence to support her claim. This rather old and antiquated law will in my view be abolished in the course of time.