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28th, fell to 113 and 144 respectively. In the four succeeding
fortnightly periods, the admissions at the hospitals were 352,303,
573, and 635 respectively. The maximum, 635, was attained in
the fortnight June 7th-20th, at which time the Asylums Board
began, as before stated, to send "mild" cases to the Hospital
Ships "direct" from their own homes. Previously, every case
had first been removed to one of the land hospitals, and subsequently
"transferred" to the Ships or to the Camp. In the
fortnight June 7th-20th, 48 cases were sent direct to the ships,
thus raising the total admissions to 683, and marking the culmination
of the epidemic. In the previous fortnight, to June 6th, the
admissions at the Eastern Hospital were 409, including 179 from
Hackney, and in the fortnight ended June 20th, they fell to 319,
including 132 from Hackney, irrespective of cases sent direct to
the Ships. In the fortnight ended July 4th, the admissions at the
Eastern Hospital were 87 only, (Hackney, 17), and so high a
number had not again been reached by September 26th, at which
date, as before said, the Asylums Board ceased to publish the
usual fortnightly returns of admissions, &c. There was, as we have
seen, a corresponding reduction in the number of cases admitted
at the other hospitals from the parishes and unions districted to
them. It has just been stated that 683 cases were admitted at
the hospitals (including the ships) in the fortnight ended June 20th.
In the succeeding fortnights the admissions were as follows:—

[The progress of the epidemic between the end of October,
1883, and the end of September, 1884, may be best studied in
the Tables, especially in Table I, which is a summary of Tables