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the next four weeks, ended June 14th, the recorded cases
were 38, 10 north and 28 south of Uxbridge-road. The 10
cases in the north district occurred in eight houses, in eight
streets; the 28 cases in the south district, in 24 houses, in
22 streets, nine of the patients being domestic servants.
By June 14th, 44 cases had been admitted into the hospital,
26 from Kensington, 10 from Fulham, and 8 from
Chelsea. Fifteen Kensington cases were infected in four
days, May 19-22, the atmospheric conditions on those days
being as follows:—wind easterly for the most part, and blowing
therefore, in the direction of Fulham; horizontal movement
of air below the average of 16 years, to the extent of
90, 69, 119, and 15 miles per diem, on the four days respectively;
temperature 54°. 8 Fahr., barometer 30.03 in., no
ozone; no rain; degree of humidity 62, complete saturation
being represented by 100. On June 14 there were 23 cases
in hospital, but not more than 10 cases had been in the
wards at the date of infection of any of the 40 cases.
Eleven of the 40 cases were infected before the hospital was
opened, in addition to any Chelsea and Fulham cases, and to
the 12 Kensington cases recorded prior to that event.
It may be further mentioned, that in the four weeks,
June 15-July 12, there were 52 cases recorded in Kensington,
30 north and 22 south of Uxbridge-road, (not one of
them within the quarter-mile central circle of the special
area), and that the total of cases admitted into the hospital
by July 12, was 127 viz., from Kensington 61, from Fulham
and Hammersmith 38, and from Chelsea 28. Of these 127
cases 30 only were in hospital July 12, all or nearly all of
the remainder, (97), having been transferred to the Hospital
Ships or Hospital Camp. The maximum number of patients
in hospital on any one day was 32. The 52 Kensington
cases occurred in 33 houses, in 28 streets: in 22 of the streets
there had been no previous case. Eight of the 22 patients
in the south district, were female domestic servants.* On
* In the next fortnight, July 12-25, there were only three cases in Kensington,
all north of Uxbridge Road, and two of them infected by a previous case,
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