[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —No one will underestimate
the importance of the con- tribution on the question of slum clearance made by Mr. Claude M. Leigh in his article last week. I am, therefore, asking for a little of your valuable space to put a question connected with the educational and social aspects of the problem which has puzzled me and • others interested in this work not a little. . .. - Mr. Leigh states that new buildings erected in place of 81 1p:1s would not be subjected to the anomalies of the Rent Restrictions Act. I have always understood that tenants protected by this Act, who are given new accommodation, continue under its protection unless they specifically ask to be moved. If this is not, in fact, the case, or if there is any method of circumventing the Act, I should be glad to know of it, as the. sub-letting evil is, perhaps, the most baffling problem connected with the slums.—I am, Sir, &c., Carlton House, Regent Street, S.W. 1.
ELLALINE MACEY.
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