Show dads letter from london BY JAMES 11 WALUS 11 IRLEY street AND ITS significance there are names apparently cas caa ual which convey a world of meaning quite out of proportion to anything intrinsic in their connotation and therefore generally due t to some fc external ab distinguishing them irom from all others such a nartie name is harley ariey II street to the medical student in his hospital days it represents rep menta the highest position in the dalli calling tig he has chosen soi something olympian almost in its remote exclusiveness an altitude apart to the lay mind it suggests the th last depal despairing ring hope the final opinion on ary of the various ills with which humanity is plagued to those daml ar with its surroundings it conjures up the picture of a lei long straight street estref t of substantial georgian GeoM laai hows houi ea each with one or more highly pol irined brass platea glistening on its ita wide closed doors outside which purr the limousines of the wealthy seeking within for the health that money cz position cannot buy it is curious anomaly ar this medical area in th buss heart of london something brique urique quite unexpected there seems to be no particular reason why it should ever rave orgina originated ted or why once started it till remains there is nothing like it in any other city in the world it began bean apparently ly L harley street spread to its neighbors riLigh bom Wini pole street welbeck street and portland place hyphened across in queen ann sweet sw sl oxford street weymouth street devonshire street slipped over oner into oxford street into lw mir in blosom blo soai out in grosvenor Oros venor street t and te ho streets named brea and sent a 0 few stray ten drill drils in othet other directions such as squy azo aymor E jalm street evryl L here to ill these areas boj will find the brass brasa plate rampant and all the people hose names are on those plates conat A harley street doc ors om bight in the arem area axe are always occurring cavendish square and uen henrietta rietta street used at one time to be the mot moat sought after addresses addres es NW now the hand of business has fallen heavily upon them wd ard w d they hae almost ceased to be doctors quarte rs manchester square lias 1194 a lew few consultants ind and so have hane chandus and nd seymour streets but the concentration ta Is mainly in and around harley street indeed in the street itself apart from one bank there are now no ron non pro fess ional tonal establishments whatsoever and the same mal ma almost be sald said of street though one can r an remember a public tl ti ere up to the time of the war max and there is still stift a bakers baker s shop and a few business houses at the lower end ahe doch s ee e gradually out au ajl other would be householders house holders hoders and there seems no present likelihood ef cf this cherom enon altering in the near future yet the pre 4 emine noe OL of clarley ip raw med lal Is comparatively recent in the days day when wealthy merchants lived in U the city the physicians and d sur rOUM CR VERNM url BURIED rn lillian on 22 wife of IA lex land of high grow grove california died on oil january 31 according to news incy ret received elved here she was the daughter of mr and mrs joseph A brown of moab utah and was burled buried at huntington huntingdon she Is 13 survived also by one zon aon derral A baby boy was born to ner mr and birg autv john stagg stag on sunday geons uv lit ed there W abio but AS people moved westward the faculty facility tol followed so that in the early part of the eighteenth ar we mv find them sporadically AM covent garden Lincol ns irin inn and bloomsbury about the rr dd 0 of f ittie century mayfair ft as built over out but there was as yet no definite medical quarter in the west dil although the fashionable physicians had migrated there and were to be found in soho st jgmes james s and a few in we amin ster you will remember practised practiced at one time in downing street hurey nelds fields called after harley farl earl of oxford was ras still open coit country on oai thi th north side of oxford street and did not begin began to be built upon until antu the end of the eighteenth century when tile streets as ve A e now know trem w were ere laid out in the mid ile of the nineteenth century square v as still tale main miter center for city doctors and although west welt end practitioners were aready already beginning to settle in harley street it yet had no pre in those days it if 1 th ills big had to lle lite near their hospitals around guys for instance there was quae a nt edical cali a quarter which wit still exists though of its ita former orles at one time al wie the newly phi ph s si clars and surgeons of gu s were mere compelled by the hosp hop tal reglia tion to 11 live ve near bo att sc they could be readily available for emerge emergencies les and it was as they became compa senior and in quite recent times the advent of the moor mo nio or atiat wei a permitted to lim hae e rooms in the present ruea of harle hari street halite street wa ma not no built for doctors it WAS occupied b uie the w balthy city and professional classes mho had migrated emst wards after the artl aristocracy tacY in aay dexy fair and the older houses with ith their 1 e atlon rooms aid small bi c corn accommodate axe are of the cu customs doniz of the times when dinners and drawing room ent represented the tha ida of hospitality ser tant binte s slept huddled in ba basement ement and family fani 1 un mae cramped than Is 19 now considered healthy 1 it b probable that harley street 0 at reet was mas org nally choson by EL a fw doctors because it mas ft as fairly centrally situated for london and reathil re atil to t he e great greal rail vay wh which h were vere built abo aboud ug the middle of the nineteenth centaurs it became tile the consulting atea area bebau e more and more doctors found it suitable and migrated there whenever neter opp opportunity tunit artun I 1 t and it has remained A it is be cau e of the filea faxe policy of th board de d waldor walden estate ft ho are the ground landlords to let hou houses ea only to doctors in the street and h 4 po ble ini in the neighbors neighbor hood z ar arcond uld ato mush matoh coif fo the histo iry to ee e ca ceic week |