ABSTRACT
This investigation began from the position that Cross’s legislation embodied a paradigm strategy for dealing with slums in late Victorian London. As such it was a problem-selecting as well as a problem-solving device; and its view of slum was shaped by the proposed remedies, just as those remedies were also shaped by conditions on the ground. By examining the manner in which this view of slum was formed, and its correspondence with conditions found on implementation of the legislation, it is possible to relate the selectiveness of the strategy to the consequences of its adoption. This final review sets out only to underline certain themes, and does not provide a summary of the argument, which needs to be set in detailed contexts.
