761 patients were interviewed at a suburban hospital casualty department, to examine usage of the department and to define differences between migrants and non-migrants. Whilst differences in socio-economic grouping, duration of illness before presentation and command of English were noted, surprising similarities in private insurance rate and general practitioner usage were found.

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