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    Letters on the importance of the rising generation of the laboring part of our fellow-subjects : being an account of the miserable state of the infant parish poor : the great usefulness of the hospital for exposed and deserted young children properly restricted : the obligations of parochial officers : and an historical detail of the whole mortality of London and Westminster, from 1592 to this time ... / by Jonas Hanway.

    Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786. | Date: 1767
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    Letters to the guardians of the infant poor to be appointed by the act of last session of Parliament : also to the governors and overseers of the parish poor : recommending concord, frugality, cleanliness, and industry, with such a pious, humane, resolute, and judicious conduct in the execution of their office, as may effectually answer the good purposes for which they are chosen, and more particularly in the preservation of infants / by Jonas Hanway.

    Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786. | Date: 1767

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