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Raid on ‘Dickensian’ London slums found 40 migrant workers living in just four houses Matt Payton. Published October 20, 2015 5:49pm Updated December 11, 2019 12:28pm Share ...

It was widely regarded as London's most atrocious slum — indeed, this was the place to which the word slum was first applied. But the Devil's Acre was not in the more famously impoverished East End.