Ebook: Childcare, health and mortality in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800: 'Left to the mercy of the world'

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.