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An Account of a DISEASE which, until lately, proved fatal to a 
great Number of INFANTS i the LYING-IN HOSPITAL 
- of DUBLIN, with Objervations on tts Caufes and Prevention. 
By JOSEPH CLARKE, M.D. Majer of the Hopital above- 
mentioned, and M.R.I. A. 
Lyine-1n HOSPITALS are inftitutions of fuch recent date, 
and fo few in number, that hitherto we may confider them as in 
a ftate of infancy. Excepting fome portion of the Hotel Dieu of 
Paris, which has been long allotted to the relief of poor pregnant 
women, I know of none that have exifted above forty years, and 
very few can lay claim even to this antiquity. It can hardly 
appear unreafonable, therefore, to fuppofe. that imperfeCtions full 
exift in their management, which time and accurate comparifon 
may ferve to detect; and although fuch eftablifhments be at pre- 
fent confined to a few of the capital cities in Europe, it is pro- 
N bable 
Read June 
6, 1789. 
