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‘fiderable as our regiftry proved it to be in the Hofpital, a proof 
that there was here fome peculiar exciting caufe of difeafe. 
‘Tuirpiy. That the difference between the mortality of the 
children in the old hofpital and in the prefent one, when under 
the management of the fame eminent character, Mr. Moffe, af- 
forded the ftrongeft evidence in favour of this conjecture. Such 
differenee could not be fuppofed to arife from any different method 
of feeding or clothing them, or in the exhibition of medicines ; 
to me it feemed to originate from a difference in the apartments 
and accommodations of the women. In the former, which was 
an old houfe, and never defigned for an hofpital, were one or 
two, or at moft three beds in the fame room, to each of which 
there muft have been a door, and one or two, perhaps three 
windows; whereas in the latter were eight beds in the fame room, 
and only one door properly fpeaking *, with three windows in 
fome, and two in others; whence it is evident that the fupply of 
frefh air in each being nearly on an equality, it muft be much 
fooner corrupted by the refpiration, lochial difcharges, and other 
effluvia of eight women and as many children, than by thofe of 
zZwo or three. 
Fourtuiy. I obferved, in farther confirmation of this doc- 
trine, that the Brownlow-ftreet Hofpital in London, which is very 
favourable 
* There is indeed a fecond door to each of our large wards, but as it opens into 
a fmall ward, containing two beds, it is probable the air derived from fuch commu- 
nication is not very falubrious. The dimenfions of our large wards, in the front of 
the hofpital, are 36 feet by 23, and 13 in height; in the rere 334 by'23, and of 
equal height. The finall wards in front are 19 by 12}; and in rere, 18 by 133. 
