Railway bridges, Wheatfield Road
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Railway bridges, Wheatfield Road
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 2 Jun 2012
This connecting road between Gorgie and Murrayfield is a relatively unexplored corner of Edinburgh, but it made front-page news in early June 2012 when an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease was traced to industrial cooling towers on both sides of these bridges. Although the direct source of the bacterium was never positively identified, a total of 16 cooling towers belonging to different premises were chemically treated as an emergency measure, but not before two men had died after contracting the air-borne disease in the Gorgie area. At the peak of the outbreak the city's hospitals were treating 50 confirmed and 48 suspected cases, making a total of 98. This photograph was taken from the gate entrance to the North British Distillers Company two days before the outbreak was reported.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.938972
Longitude
-3.236966