5 FEBRUARY 1937, Page 20

LONDON UNDER SOCIALISM

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If Mr. Herbert Morrison would be kind enough to come to my district, within a mile of County Hall, on the east side of the Borough High Street, I could show him slums which I believe he will admit to be the worst in South London. Repeated appeals have been made to Borough Authorities, and by them (I understand) to the L.C.C., in the last five years, but nothing visible has been done.

Why leave the worst till the last ? Recently a servant of the Council put his nose inside the entrance to a block of flats, and went home ill for the rest of the day. About 200 people have to live in those flats !—Yours, &c., P. M. GEDGE,