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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.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The characteristics of foundlings
3. Risks of death: the estimation of mortality
4. Survival prospects
5. The nursing network
6. Growing up as a foster child
7. Childcare and health in a local setting
8. Foundlings and the local demographic context
9. Conclusions
Index

Childcare Health and Mortality in the London

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 12/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719073557, 978-0719073557
      ISBN10: 0719073553

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. Introduction
      2. The characteristics of foundlings
      3. Risks of death: the estimation of mortality
      4. Survival prospects
      5. The nursing network
      6. Growing up as a foster child
      7. Childcare and health in a local setting
      8. Foundlings and the local demographic context
      9. Conclusions
      Index

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