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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 1910

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1910

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1910. Case of Phthisis, T.T.Date.Address.
Left the Infirmary15th February8, Noble Street.
Entered the Workhouse16th February—
Left the Infirmary18th February8, Margaret Street.
Entered the Infirmary25th March24, Noble Street.
Left the Infirmary4th April8, Margaret Street.
Entered the Workhouse6th April—
Left the Infirmary12th June8, Margaret Street.
Entered the Workhouse15th June8, Noble Street.
Transferred to Infirmary15th June—
Left Infirmary2nd July8, Margaret Street.
Entered the Workhouse25th July24, Noble Street.
Transferred to Infirmary27th July—
Lett Infirmary5th August8, Margaret Street.
Entered the Workhouse9th August24, Noble Street.
Transferred to Infirmary11th August—
Left Infirmary22nd October8, Margaret Street.
Entered the Workhouse5th November24, Noble Street.
Transferred to Infirmary5th November—

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For each one of the above occasions a separate notification fee
was paid.
Of the whole number of cases notified, less than a third were
born in Finsbury, an equal number in other London Boroughs and
the rest elsewhere. Two were born in Italy. One in every seven
of the patients was bed-ridden and had been ill some considerable
time. One had been ill 20 years, one 25 years, and these people
had doubtless been presumably infectious during most if not the
whole of this period.
This illustrates the difficulty of dealing satisfactorily with
phthisis on legislative bases; the appeal for its prevention and
limitation must in the end be mainly a personal one.