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THE last volume of the great “New Survey of London Life and Labour” has now appeared. We noticed the first in NATURE of March 21, 1931, p. 430, and have now to add a word of hearty congratulation to Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith and his staff on having brought their ship into port. It is a fine piece of work, and both the thoroughness of the execution and the general hopefulness of the conclusions will bring happiness to Mr. Charles Booth in the shades and to all his friends who remember the devotion and the insight with which he initiated and carried through the earlier survey forty years ago. That was a scientific expression of the humanitarian spirit, parallel to, and no doubt largely inspired by, the same ideas which had just founded Toynbee Hall, as the practical expression. Both movements have been followed by hundreds of successors in all parts of the world. It is one of the most interesting features of this new survey that its director, Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith, had a hand in both the earlier experiments in the ‘eighties and ‘nineties of the last century.
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M., F. Scientific Methods and the Advance of Social Conditions: Life and Leisure in London. Nature 136, 695–697 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136695a0
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