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Holborn Union Workhouse and Infirmary, 140; the Finsbury
Dispensary, Brewer Street, 57; St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 50;
the Royal Chest Hospital, City Road, 49; Mount Vernon
Hospital, Hampstead, 7; Brompton Chest Hospital, 5; Royal
Free Hospital, 5; Royal General Dispensary, Aldersgate, 5;
University College Hospital, 5; St. Catherine's Hospital,
Ramsgate, 4; Fairlight Sanatorium, Hastings, 3; Margaret
Street Dispensary,W., 3; National Sanatorium, Benenden, Ke it,
2; Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate, 2; and one each from
the following:—Bloomsbury Dispensary; Darenth Asylum;
Eversfield Chest Hospital, St. Leonards; Farringdon General
Dispensary, Holborn; Firs House Hospital, Bournemouth;
Friedenheim Hospital, Hampstead; Hendon Asylum; Kensington
Poor Law Infirmary; Leavesden Asylum; Metropolitan Hospital,
Kingsland; Middlesex Hospital; National Hospital, Isle of
Wight; North Eastern Hospital, Hackney; St. Anthony's
Hospital, Cheam; St. George's Hospital; St. John's Hospital,
Paddington; St. Joseph's Convalescent Home, Bournemouth,
St. Luke's House, Kensington; St. Pancras Dispensary, rnd
Victoria Park Hospital, London.
The list shows that 29 Finsbury patients received institutional
treatment in a sanatorium.
Finsbury Cases.—A patient is said to belong to Finsbury
by residence when he has resided in the Borough for at
least 5 years, or, if not yet 5 years of age, since his birth.
The period 5 years has been arbitrarily assumed as one of a
reasonable duration entitling to a public health settlement, and
also because it is generally asserted that the average duration
of a case of phthisis from early demonstrable clinical signs to
death is about 5 years. A case is accredited to Finsbury by
infection when the presumed duration of the disease, as e'icited
by enquiry, is less than the length of the patient's residence in
the Borough.
Adopting these definitions, the cases may be grouped as
follows