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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Finsbury 1914

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1914

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80
shirt maker, 1; shopkeeper, 1; showroom assistant, 1; stocking
knitter, 2; tobacconist's assistant, 1; umbrella finisher, 1; waistcoat
presser, 1; waitress, 2; washerwoman, 4; no occupation, 34.
Eighteen patients were homeworkers.

Table: National Insurance Act, 1911.—Enquiry was made into the number of patients who were insured under the National Insurance Act. The results are given in the subjoined table:-

National Insurance Act, 1911.—Enquiry was made into the number of patients who were insured under the National Insurance Act. The results are given in the subjoined table:-

Total cases.Insured.Dependants.Not Insured.
Phthisis38216712194
Other Tuberculous Diseases7718554
Totals45918517698

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Fifty-two patients obtained sanatorium treatment, ten obtained
domiciliary treatment at the cost of the London County Insurance
Committee.
The Homes and Tenements.—Out of the whole number,
excluding common lodging houses, 79 were one-roomed tenements,
that is to say, in those homes the consumptive patient and
the rest of the family lived, took their meals, and slept in one
room. The two-roomed tenements numbered 132. The rest had
three or more rooms. Twenty-one homes were overcrowded.
Eighty-one tenements had only one cupboard each for food, clothes,
coke and firewood. Eleven homes had no cupboard accommodation
at all.
These are very unsatisfactory conditions for a phthisical household.
When the patient and his family sleep in one bed, or in
different beds in the same room, when the household utensils of
the consumptive are kept in the same cupboard as the other household
utensils and mixed indiscriminately with them; when his
clothes, soiled with sputum, are placed in the common receptacle;
when he uses the common towel and washing basin, the common