 He left Jura in January 1949 to get treatment at a sanatorium in the Gloucestershire and never returned to the island.He was known to the residents of Jura by his real name, Eric Blair.He completed "Nineteen Eighty-Four" at Barnhill during 1947–48; he sent the final typescript to his publishers, Secker and Warburg, on 4 December 1948, and they published the book on 8 June 1949.