SLUM CLEARANCE
"HERITAGE OF SHAME"
(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, January ... On the occasion of laying the corner stone of a block of fifty-two "cottage flats" to be built by the Church Army at Lambeth, the Archbishop of Canterbury described slum clearance as "the great social problem of our time." "Tho first years of my ministry," said the Archbishop, "were spent in a slum, where my home was nothing but a public-house which had been con'iloinned as both unnecessary and insanitary. I can only say that I spent there perhaps the happiest and one of the healthiest times of, my life. "I know very well by experience that it is marvellous how one can acconimo-. date oneself even to these slum conditions, and it is a perpetual marvel to me .that, in spite of those conditions, so many of our good working folk are ablo to bring up their families in selfrespoct and some measure of health. "We havo inherited from an age of ever-increasing prosperity this lamentable heritage of the slums. I hope earnestly that tho public conscience, now aroused, will never go to sleep until the last remnant of this heritage- of shame has been removed."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 12 March 1934, Page 6
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SLUM CLEARANCE
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 60, 12 March 1934, Page 6
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