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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SLUM , a squalid, dirty See also:

street or See also:quarter in a See also:city, See also:town or See also:village, inhabited by the very poor, destitute or criminal classes; over-crowding is frequently another characteristic (see See also:HOUSING). The word is a comparatively See also:recent one and is of uncertain origin. It has been doubtfully connected with a dialectal use of " slump " in the sense of a marshy, swampy See also:place; cf. Ger. Schlamm, mud, and Eng. See also:dialect slammock, slattern (See also:Skeat, Etym. Did., 1910).

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