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Show ing populution of thin district. The area uiuler consideration is more than nine acres, obout 2 Mi per cent of which consists of streets. One-fifth of the district la given over to fish-curing, fish-curing, the remainder being devoted to little hole-in-the-wall shops and dingy, dirty hovels whose residents live among their pigeons and chickens chick-ens . The resistance shown by the. inhabitants in-habitants illustrates the British principle prin-ciple thut "Every Man's Home Is His Castle." It is possible in these days to treat a district full of hard-working people as if it were a howling menagerie. Home ties are sacred in the slums or on Notting Hill. LONDON'S SLUMLAN'D REFUSES RE-FUSES TO BE DESLUMMED I read in the papers that London's slumland refuses to be deslummed. When government authorities, in the interests of health and sanitation, invaded in-vaded the East End armed with demolition de-molition orders and blue prints, Lime-house Lime-house rose its wrath and serious disorder dis-order prevented the tarrying out of the clean-up campaign. The Minister of Health is making every effort to wipe out every dilup-'olate, dilup-'olate, diilase-infe.tcd structure in the various boroughs of olll London. Liniehouse ad Stepney are notorious for their uncleanliness It is planned to raze the old buildings and erect modern accomodations for the teem- |