THE SLUM BABIES.
CONDITIONS IN POOR HOMES. POPULATION OF FUTURE. LONDON. Dec. 3. .Jir. S. Saklatvala; Communist M-P. for Battersea, has written to all the Doffiioion Prime Ministers, directing attention to what he calls " the most important human problems and certain political problems. "Probablv," he says, "you were not invited to "inspect the thousands.upon thousands of congested and insanitary British homes, in which mothers were givjrtg birth to babies, while surrounded, in the same room, even in'the sarrn; bed,. by other grown-up, half-hungry children. These are, to a large extent, to be your population of the future, Ipr, pick as carefully as you may, these will be the majority of the British people, of the next generation;" ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19512, 16 December 1926, Page 13
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