Around 50 years of age a man very often passes through a Crisis in His Life - a health crisis, a neurosis, or something of that kind.

The welfare authorities, the county boroughs, the county councils and the voluntary organisations all play their part individually in an admirable way, but I cannot help feeling that our left hand does not know what our right hand is doing and that the old and the failing individualist stumbles from one Crisis in His Life to the next rather alone and in the dark.

He has reached a Crisis in His Life, because his cooker has been condemned as dangerous by the local gas supplier.