Childcare, health and mortality in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800
ISBN: 9781526130426
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Foundlings; Foundlings;

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.

Levene Alysa :

Alysa Levene is Lecturer in the Department of History at Oxford Brookes UniversityAlysa Levene is Lecturer in the Department of History at Oxford Brookes University


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