Have a quick look at what follows, by all means. But if you have never visited the parent page, with "scene setting", I hope you will visit it one day. It tries to explain what an amazing achievement Thomas Coram's Foundling Hospital was.

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The following extracts from the 1735 bylaws of the Foundling Hospital, the first "charity" in the modern sense, and the beginning of child welfare in England, gives the details of how a "child" left the Hospital's care.

It is a curious mix of the kindly and the practical.

And, at the bottom, there are the accounts for the charity's first three years of operation. (During this time, things were being put in place. The first children were accepted on 25 March 1741. (At temporary premises in Hatton Garden. The first children taken into the Hospital built for the purpose in Coram's Fields were accepted about 1745... likely the now "grown" first children, "ready" to move from their wet nurses to the Hospital.)

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