ABSTRACT

Her Majesty, we believe, has recently refused her sanction to the erection of more married quarters with only one room. There is probably no department of barrack accommodation which needs the application of a little common sense more than that which deals with the accommodation of our married soldiers. So long as soldiers are permitted to marry—and this is only reasonable for those who spend the greater portion of their lives in the service,—it is but right that they should be housed as well as horses, and not three or four families crowded into one room, as we have repeatedly seen in many of the garrisons.