Answer of the governors of the Foundling Hospital, to a memorial of the Lord Mayor ... citizens of Dublin, to the Lord Lieutenant, dated 3rd of May, 1816 ... together with other documents, explaining the proceedings of the governors, as connected with the Act of 54 Geo. III. C. 128, empowering them to suspend the admission of infants into the hospital, for a limited time in each year.

  • Foundling Hospital (Dublin, Ireland)
Date:
1816
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Answer of the governors of the Foundling Hospital, to a memorial of the Lord Mayor ... citizens of Dublin, to the Lord Lieutenant, dated 3rd of May, 1816 ... together with other documents, explaining the proceedings of the governors, as connected with the Act of 54 Geo. III. C. 128, empowering them to suspend the admission of infants into the hospital, for a limited time in each year. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO HIS EXCELLENCY CHARLES, EARL WHITWORTH, LORD • LIEUTENANT-GENERAL AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND, THE HUMBLE OF THE LORD MAYOR, SHERIFFS, COMMONS, AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN, IN COMMON COUNCIL ASSEMBLED, SHE WETH, \ ' THAT the reception of Foundlings was made one of the functions of the Dublin Work-house, founded in the 2d of Queen Anne, and continued to the 12th of Geo. III. under the control of this Corporation, and was so con- stituted, for the express purpose of preventing the exposure, death, and actual murder, of illegitimate Children. That the beneficial operations of such a measure became so evident, that, in the 12th of Geo. III. a distinct Cor- poration was established for the purposes of the Foundling Hospital, that the sole and individual attention of its Governors might be given to an object which had pre- viously constituted only a branch of the Work-house. That, until the 54th of his present Majesty, the Governors of the said Work-house and Foundling Hospital were to receive young Children at all seasons of the year indiscri- minately, and without any Certificate or Document, the procuring of which must necessarily have led to the disco- very of the Parent or Parents, and thereby defeat the beneficial operations of these Establishments. A 2