Originally posted by Chris Phillips
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Do you happen to know where Martin Fido found the address 84 Leman Street, which he associated with Cohen?
The Colney Hatch Asylum Casebook entry (as reprinted in the A-Z) does not mention it.
Sometimes Fido was a little cryptic about his sources. In his book it sounds like this address was listed on Cohen's Whitechapel Infirmary record, but it isn't. He also gives the date of admission as December 12, when it was actually on December 7th, so I'm assuming he must have found a different record for the workhouse admission, with a wrong date, presumably in some record at Colney Hatch (?)
Fido also writes "they 'found him wandering at large and unable to take care of himself.' This was official Lunacy Act wording, meaning only that he seemed mad and that they had not taken him from friends or a known address."
I find this puzzling. Wouldn't No. 86 Leman Street be a 'known address'? (Even if it was the Temporary Shelter for Poor Homeless Jews, next door at No. 84?)
I suppose in theory Cohen could have entered No. 86 and the police were called, but he was not actually associated with that address. But I've never chased down exactly where this address is coming from...
Kaminsky was admitted from 15 Black Lion Yard, so it isn't that...
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