Contains two documents about attitudes to slums: Slum Babies and Slum Mothers by Ray Phillips, first published about 1914, and Lifting Babies out of the Slums - Slum Abolition Movement in the 1930's (an extract from The Slum Abolition Movement in Victoria 1933-37 by E. W. Russell, published by Hornet Publications in 1972). The book includes a chapter on the Barnett group in the slum abolition movement in Melbourne in the 1930's.