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9. The Field Lane Institution lies outside the Borough. It
possesses a day nursery accommodatin; 26 children at a
charge of twopence per day for each child. These
infants are chiefly the children of widows, deserted
wives, or of those mothers whose husbands are ill or out
of work.
It employs a trained nurse, and distributes much
broken food amongst the Finsbury poor.
10. The Royal General Dispensary, 26, Bartholomew Close,
is open daily at 12 mid-day. The Resident Medical
Officer is Dr. Kearney.
11. Nursing Facilities.—There are nurses in conmection with
the following Churches and Chapels :—
St. Silas, Pentonville.
All Saints Mission, White Lion Street.
St. John's, Clerkenwell.
St. Paul's, Peartree Street.
Claremont Hall.
Queen's Nurses for the sick poor can always be obtained by
applying to the Superintendent of the Queen Victoria Jubilee
Nurses at the local branch, 23, Bloomsbury Square, W.C.

The number of births in the Borough was 2,676, so that these
figures show that in 1911 seventy per cent, of all the births in
Finsbury came under the supervision of the Public Health Staff.