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1883, three cases occurred at No. 35 on the same day; two
cases in March and two in May, both at the same time. There
were cases in this street in January, February, March, and one
in April, which was removed on the 14th, and the rooms and
clothes disinfected. Single cases occurred on the 5th, 12th,
14th, and 23rd of May, followed by seven cases in different
houses on the 26th and 27th, and one on each day on the 28th,
29th, 30th, and 31st. Now, it is a somewhat singular coincidence
—if it be merely a coincidence—that the wind veered round on
the 12th, just a fortnight before, from W.S.W. to N.N.E., E.
and E.S.E., being precisely the direction (easterly) which would
carry the disease from the hospital to Templar Road. Another
small outbreak, after a quiescence of more than five weeks,
happened on the 27th, 29th, and 30th of September, and on the
1st of November, the wind having blown generally from the
E.N.E., and a short time from E. and S.E. on the 12th, 13th,
14th, 15th, and 16th. The residents of Holmbrook Street,
which is situated to the south of the hospital, behind The Grove,
suffered most during April and the first twelve days of May,
the wind being northerly for the greater part of the time from
the 24th March to the end of April. Again, there was an
outbreak in Brooksby's Walk (which is situated on the east of
the hospital) on 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th of May, and the
wind was generally westerly on the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and
15th of the month.
The next instance I will mention is that of Clifden Eoad,
which is on the north of the hospital, where an outbreak took
place on the 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 26th, and 28th of May. The
wind was variable, but more or less southerly from the 6th to
the 17th of May. I have thus shown that the inhabitants of
the streets immediately adjacent to, and those situated to the
north, south, east, and west of the hospital, suffered most from
the disease, when the wind blew towards them from the hospital
about a fortnight before. The intervention of the infirmary