The Restoration of Children of the Slums

constitute more nearly a single human family. Modern research, such as the parliamentary investigation into the physical deterioration of the English people, indicates that the degeneracy which is symptomatically associated with slum life, is to a great extent acquired by each generation and not inherited from the. preceding. The inefficient product of the slum is the result of the treatment received during infancy and childhood. Children of the rich, of the moderately well-to-do, and of the poor are, as it were, representatives of the same species of plant growing under diverse influences of soil, sunshine, air and moisture. You would