Candid remarks on Mr. Hanway's Candid historical account of the Foundling Hospital, and a more useful plan humbly recommended in a letter to a Member of Parliament / [David Stansfield].

  • David Stansfield
Date:
1760
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Credit: Candid remarks on Mr. Hanway's Candid historical account of the Foundling Hospital, and a more useful plan humbly recommended in a letter to a Member of Parliament / [David Stansfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    , ( 42 ) | HAS this Plan of Public Workhoufes fo promiting an afpeat in this Single View? View it a little farther, and you wil fee it faving the lives of Hundreds, may i not fay Thoufands of Common Profitutes, who now gare not only the Bane of our Youth, but of found Children, | me and even of themielves. — View it reftoring thefe Public Nijfanecs, to health of Body, more fafely than by Quack ts, medicines, [A] and to Health of mind, by good precept and by inuring them to’ habits of virtue, dilligence, and — Oecconomy ;—with thefe attainments, (acquir’d yee means of themfelves,) fee em zhen emerge from thefe Workhou-. % fes in ful heaith, beautifully reform’d 5 axtradiing, con- F i@ Jugal partners and producing Numbers of Heatehtal living Children, and thofe Children generating after- ’ wards, multitudes of other healthful ones, for the Sere % '. : ey a vice of our hee Fields and ee ee eae. B Rc ov oo. View it again in fori Light, (when sided by the aes any Execution of wholefome Laws againf fuch Fora: Criminals as either will not, or cannot provid maintenance de cpt underftood to mean fuch as have been formerly Tecom- . mended-to ‘the Public ; Where thé Front may be appro- priated for Manufadtures, one Wing for an Infirmary, and the other for a Houfe of Correction immwith: vig : _ conveniencies for Agriculture. _ |