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Goswell Road, 9; St. Bartholomew's Buildings, 8; Central
Street, 8; Lever Street, 7; Rahere Street, 7; Rodney Street, 7;
St. John Street, 7; Brunswick Close, 6; Compton Buildings, 6;
Ironmonger Street, 6; Old Street, 6; Pentonville Street, 6;
Radnor Street, 6; Victoria Dwellings, 6; and Bastwick Street,
Coldbath Square, Hermes Street, Mitchell Street, Nelson Street,
Rising Hill Street, 5 cases each. The notifications from the
Peabody Buildings were as follows:—Dufferin Street, 5; Errol
Street, 4; Farringdon Road, 7; Guest Street, 3; and Roscoe
Street, 5 cases.

Nearly 38 per cent, of the patients had lived less than one
year at the addresses given when they were notified.
These poor people, as their savings get exhausted, and their
sick benefits get less, get in arrears with their rent, and are for
ever moving from one house to another, often clandestinely, or
are being ejected. They thus continue infecting fresh tenements
in their quests for cheaper accommodation, and in their struggles
to stave off the ultimate resort to the poor law.
Place of Birth.—This was ascertained in 333 cases as follows:
—Finsbury, 116; other parts of London, 170; England, 30;
Wales, 1; Scotland, 1; Ireland, 5; Canada, 2; Malta, 1;
Germany, 4; and Italy, 3 cases. Eighty-six per cent, were
Londoners by birth, 35 per cent, were born in Finsbury.
Family History.—In many cases this information cannot be
obtained owing to the patient's disappearance or his removal to