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149 from hospitals and dispensaries, 26 from schools, and 130
from private doctors. In reference to the 133 poor law cases,
there were received 701 notifications, re-notifications, and notices
of discharge. This means that each poor law case was notified
on an average, nearly six times, and is due to the fact that these
pauper cases are restless in institutions, and frequently come out,
especially at holiday time, and later seek re-admission. Two
hundred and seventy-four cases gave a Clerkenwell address, 164
lived in St. Luke.
Institutions.—The institutions and the number of notifications
from each are appended:—
Holborn Union Workhouse and Infirmary, 133; the Finsbury
Dispensary, Brewer Street, 47; St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 30;
the Royal Chest Hospital, City Road, 41; Mount Vernon Hospital,
Hampstead, 5; Brompton Chest Hospital, 3; Royal Free Hospital,
5; Royal General Dispensary, Aldersgate, 1; University College
Hospital, 3; Metropolitan Convalescent Hospital, Walton-onThames,
3; Middlesex Hospital, 2; and one each from the
following:— King's College Hospital; the German Hospital,
Dalston; the French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue; the Hospital
for Sick Children, Gt. Ormond Street; the London Homoeopathic
Hospital; Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton; the Royal Sanatorium,
Bournemouth; the City of London Infirmary; the Havelock
Hall Dispensary; the Kennington Tuberculosis Dispensary;
St. Katharine's Hospital, Ramsgate; and the North London
Tuberculosis Dispensary, Oakley Square.
Fifteen Finsbury patients received institutional treatment in a
sanatorium—other than in a poor law infirmary.
How many of the whole number are Finsbury cases.
—A patient is said to belong to Finsbury by residence when he
has resided in the Borough for at least five years, or, if not yet
five years of age, since his birth. The period five 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