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Finsbury convenient for work—
" Easy to get to and from the City.
Living with their parents 24
" House rent is cheap in Finsbury 6
"So as to get into the Holborn Infirmary 4
Other reasons given were :—
Finsbury is as good as anywhere else in London "
" Finsbury is healthier than Holborn "
" Recommended to some of the Finsbury ' buildings.' "
One patient had lived in St. Pancras, and had been oft-times
ejected for non-payment of rent. He had tried to get a oneroomed
tenement elsewhere, but failed owing to his lacking a
"respectable reference." Finsbury was the only borough he
knew where one could rent a room " without giving the landlord
any reference whatever."
He came to this Borough, and, although ill, and without
any " landlord's reference," obtained a room at once.
OCCUPATIONS.
1. Food. —In 66 cases the occupation of the patient brought
him or her into close relationship with the preparation of food,
either for the household, or for public consumption, or with the
distribution of food. Four were domestic servants, 3 were street
hawkers of fruit, vegetables and confectionery, 2 were waitresses
in a restaurant, 1 was a chef in an hotel, 1 made confectionery,
1 was a milk carrier, and 1 was a milk seller.
In one case a girl of 13 years had been excluded from school
on account of phthisis. Arrangements were made to send her to
a sanatorium for treatment, but her father refused to allow her
to go. Her father was addicted to drink ; her mother was in
the Holborn Poor Law Infirmary. The girl had to do all the
household cleaning, and when this was finished had to help her
father to sell from a stall in a market street; the condition of
the child was, therefore, worse than if she were allowed to
remain at school.