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with the sufferers. Twenty were school children. The schools
chiefly affected were Compton Street (3), Bath Street (3), Rising
Hill Street (2), St. Peter's, Saffron Hill (2), and Moreland Street,
2 cases.

Of the whole number, 42 were considered to be Finsbury cases
by residence and infection, 9 Finsbury cases by infection, 2
Finsbury cases by residence, and the rest, 24 in number, were not
Finsbury cases. These last were persons who were affected with
tuberculosis before coming into the Borough, and had moved into
Finsbury so as to be near the hospitals to obtain free treatment.
The patients came mostly from the fol'owing streets: Amias
Place (2), Baker's Row (2), Central Street (4), Goswell Terrace
(2), Ironmonger Street (2), Jerusalem Passage (2), King's Cross
Road (2), Lever Street (3), Little Sutton Street (2), Murton Street
(2), Pentonville Road (2), and St. John Street, 2 cases.
Twelve of the patients lived and slept with their families in one
room. Five of the tenements were overcrowded. The close contacts
in the same families included 172 adults and children above
school age and 208 other children.
The kitchen was used for sleeping purposes in 42 instances.
Ten families were living under conditions of great poverty. In
11 cases the mother was the chief or only wage earner.
The deaths included 21 from Tuberculous Meningitis (Clerkenwell
14, and St. Luke's 7), and 35 from other forms of tuberculosis
(Clerkenwell 18, and St. Luke's 17).