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The report of the general committee for directing, managing, and transacting the business, affairs, estate, and effects of the corporation of the governors and guardians of the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children : relating to the general plan for executing the purposes of the Royal Charter, establishing this Hospital

by: Foundling Hospital (London, England)

Publication date: 1740

Topics: Foundling Hospital (London, England), Child welfare, Orphanages, Children -- Institutional care, Orphanages

Publisher: London : Printed by John Baskett

Collection: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries

Contributor: Wellcome Library

Language: English

Rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark

47 pages ; 19 cm (12mo)

Includes: Bỳ-laws proposed to be made for the well-government of the corporation of the Hospital...

Prior to the establishment of the London Foundling Hospital the only establishment dealing with foundlings and orphans was Christs ̀Hospital, founded in 1552. By 1676 illegitimate infants and children were not accepted