Brewer's: Slumland

The localities of the destitute poor who dwell in the slums.

“Not only have we the inhabitants of Slumland to deal with, but a steadily growing number of skilled and fairly educated artisans.” —Nineteenth Century, December, 1892, p. 888.

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