6 DECEMBER 1924, Page 12

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is the abolition of

the slums as simple a question as your recent article would suggest ? Have we any guarantee that when we do rebuild these new buildings will not, before

many years, be again turned into slums ? I recently passed through the street in which my father was born ; it was a respectable " end of the town then : it would certainly be classed as a slum now. In my neighbourhood are two stable yards, exactly identical, and built at the same time. The occupiers earn very much the same wages. One place is always clean and tidy—the other is kept in a horrible state. If the very poor continue to bring into the world about three times as many children as they have any hope of rearing decently I fear the slums will be always with us.—I am, Sir, &c.,