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    Considerations on the bill for obliging all parishes in this kingdom to keep proper registers of births, deaths, and marriages: and for raising therefrom a fund towards the support of the hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children. In a letter to a member of Parliament.

    | Date: 1759
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    A reply to C----- A-------, author of the Candid remarks on Mr. Hanway's candid historical account of the Foundling Hospital : with relation to the probable advantages of this institution, if confined to such foundlings, orphans, and deserted children, within the bills of mortality, as were usually sent to parish workhouses and parish nurses.

    | Hanway, Jonas 1712-1786. | Date: 1760
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    Considerations on the bill for obliging all parishes in this Kingdom to keep proper Registers of Births , deaths, and marriages: and for raising therefrom a fund towards the support of the hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children. In a letter to a member of Parliament.

    | Date: 1759
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