SLUMS OF CALCUTTA
Visit By Mr R. G. Casey BOMBAY, December 3. “I have been horrified by what I have seen,” said the Governor of Bengal, Mr R. G. Casey, in a statement after an incognito tour of the Calcutta slums. “I have seen something of the way in which hundreds of thousands of Calcutta’s citizens are obliged to live. “Human beings cannot allow other human beings to continue to exist under these conditions. I am not interested in who has been responsible for allowing these conditions to come
into existence and to continue to exist. My only interest is that these conditions should be improved, and neither politics nor vested interests should be allowed to stand in the way. “The people of Calcutta have a right to ask in six months’ time what has been done about it.” Mr Casey walked through dingy lanes with open sewers and entered hovels where he questioned the inhabitants.
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Southland Times, Issue 25538, 5 December 1944, Page 5
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