Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800: "Left to the Mercy of the World" by Alysa Levene

Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800: "Left to the Mercy of the World"

Alysa Levene

224 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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This book is a thorough and engaging examination of an institution and its young charges, set in the wider social, cultural, demographic and medical context of the eighteenth century. By examining the often short lives of abandoned babies, the boo...

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