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Institutions.—The institutions and the number of notifications
from each are appended:—
Holborn Union Workhouse and Infirmary, 88; the Finsbury
Dispensary, Brewer Street, North, 39; St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, 34; Royal Chest Hospital, City Road, E.C., 29; Royal
Free Hospital, 6; Cane Hill Asylum, 3; City of London Dispensary,
3; Long Grove Asylum, 3; Royal General Dispensary,
Aldersgate, E.C., 3; Brompton Chest Hospital, 2; Hanwell
Asylum, 2; Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street,
W.C., 2; Kennington Tuberculin Dispensary, 2; Mount Vernon
Hospital, Hampstead, N.W., 2; National Insurance Commissioners,
2; and one each from the following:—Banstead Asylum;
Charing Cross Hospital; Claremont Mission, Pentonville, N.;
Downs Sanatorium, Epsom; Eastern Hospital, Homerton, E.;
General Post Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand; Italian Hospital,
Queen's Square, W.C.; King's College Hospital; Park Hospital,
Hither Green, S.E.; Royal National Hospital for Consumption,
Ventnor, Isle of Wight; Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate;
St. Luke's House, Pembridge Square, W.; St. Luke's Hospital,
Old Street, E.C.; St. Pancras Dispensary, and St. Peter's Home,
Kilburn, N.W.
Ninety-six Finsbury patients received institutional treatment in
a sanatorium—other than in a poor law infirmary—and chiefly as
insured patients under the National Insurance Act
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
case is accredited to Finsbury by infection when the presumed
duration of the disease, as elicited by enquiry, is less than the
length of the patient's residence in the Borough.