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CHILDCARE, HEALTH AND MORTALITY IN THE LONDON FOUNDLING HOSP IBD

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
12 / 2012
9780719073557
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Sinopsis

This book is a thorough and appealing investigation into the health and welfare of abandoned babies and children in eighteenth-century England. It uses a variety of approaches to examine health, mortality and welfare practices, including family fostering, wet-nursing, disease and the impact of abandonment on survivorship.