A Return To Harriett Salter

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Originally Posted by kiterunner

The 1901 census has St Luke's Hospital at Old Street, Vita, but it doesn't seem to give the number within the street.

Thanks Kite. All things point to the Old Street address being the workhouse,

but you know how you clutch at straws?

[kiterunner]

See post #40, Vita - we were both typing at the same time!

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OK, thanks Kite. Wonder if 175 was for that purpose in 1897?

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Just read that by 1865 the hospital had around 150 patients taken from the middle classes

after abandoning the original intention of treating paupers, which we know Harriett to

have been.

[kiterunner]

In the 1895 London Post Office Directory, number 175 is Solomon Temple, coffee rooms, and St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics is again between numbers 181 and 183.

[vita]

Thanks again, Kite. I've just had another look at cert & its a clear '175' so I guess they

must have taken it over by 1897. (Much as I'd like to imagine Harriett as a rather elderly

coffee house employee).