An account of the Foundling Hospital in London, for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children.
- Date:
- MDCCXCIX [1799]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the Foundling Hospital in London, for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![another by feveral noblemen and gentlemen; .both of. which were annexed to his petition i to “ found out, for preventing the frequent murders of “ poor miferable infants at their birth ; or for fup- “ preffing the inhuman cuflom of expoftng new born “ infants to perifh in the ftreets ; or the putting out fuen unhappy foundlings to wicked and barbarous “ nurfes, who undertaking to bring them up for a “ fmall and trifling fum of money, do often fuffer “ them to ftarve for want of due fuftenance or care; •“ or, if permitted to live, either turn them into the “ ftreets to beg dr fteal, or hire them out to loofe perfons, by whom they are trained up in that in- “ famous way of living ; and fometimes are blinded, “ or maimed and diftorted in their limbs, in order to «c move pity and compaflion, and thereby become fit- “ ter inftruments of gain to thofe vile mcrcilefs - “ wretches. . “ For a beginning to redrefs fo deplorable a grie- “ vance, and to prevent as well the effufton of fo much “ innocent blood, as the fatal confcquences of that “ idlenefs, beggary, or ftealing, in which fuch poor “ foundlings arc generally bred up; and to enable *.* them, by an early and effectual care of their edu- “ cation, to become ufeful members of the common- « wealth ; we whofe names are under written, be- 46 ing] deeply touehed with compaiflon for the fuf- 4S ferings and lamentable condition of fuch poor <c abandoned he!plefs infants, as well as the enormous - “ abufes and mifehiefs to which they are expofed, •“ and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28040831_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
