Recently, the Mental Health Foundation published the largest survey of the nation's sleep. It revealed that people with insomnia suffer from dramatically higher rates of relationship difficulties, energy deficiency, and depressed mood, as well as other health and wellbeing problems. From this report published on 27 January 2011, it appears that poor sleep is a seriously neglected public health concern, and there is an urgent need to do something about it. One hundred years ago, the BJN published an article by Dr Woods Hutchinson, about sleep and enclosed are some key points made at the time: