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Finsbury 1925

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1925

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The actual number of notifications received in 1925 was 334,
but of these many refer to the same patient. There were 202
primary notifications, of which 42 were from poor law sources, 101
from hospitals and dispensaries, 55 from private doctors, and 4 from
Army sources. In reference to the poor law cases there were also
received 58 re-notifications and notices of admission and discharge.
115 gave a Clerkenwell address, 87 lived in St. Luke's, none
lived in St. Sepulchre.

How many of the whole number are Finsbury Cases—

1. Finsbury cases by residence and infection128
2. Finsbury cases by infection13
3. Finsbury cases by residence only5
4. Not Finsbury cases20
5. Not ascertainable36
202

The cases which may be definitely associated with the borough
are the first two groups, and amount to 141, that is 70 per cent. of
the whole number.
Distribution by Streets.—The largest numbers were notified
from the following places:—Old Street 18, Cumming Street 7,
Rosoman Street 8, Lever Street 6, Farringdon Road 6, Margaret
Street 4, Wynford Road 5, Gee Street 5, Seward Street 3, St. John
Street 3, Little Sutton Street 3, Wharton Street 3, Southampton
Street 3, Corporation Row 3, Bastwick Street 4, Claremont
Square 4, Buxton Street 2, Union Place (Glasshouse Yard) 2,
New Charles Street 2, Amwell Street 2, King's Cross Road 2,
Myddelton Square 2, Pentonville Road 2, Penton Place 2, Risingbill
Street 2, White Lion Street 2, Rosebery Avenue 2. Tysoe Street 2,
Gt. Bath Street 2, Central Street 2, Norman Street 2, Radnor Street
2, Galway Street 2, Leage Street 3, Helmet Row 3, Dufferin Street 2,
Roscoe Street 2, Macclesfield Street 2.
The Homes and Tenements of the Patients.—Out of the whole
number, excluding lodging houses, 41 were one-roomed tenements,
that is to say, in these tenements the patient and family lived