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Comprising:
Blackwood Furniture, Brass and Iron Bedsteads Tables, Carpets and Bugs Overmantles, Bik Tapestry
Covered Drawing Room Suite, Sofas, Bary Chain, Occasional Tabler,"
Dining Table
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FOUNDLING HOSPITAL. CONTEMPLATED REMOVALIS
Que of the most interesting of London's institutions may disappear in the near Yuture by the removal of the Found- ling. Hospital to mors rural environment
Clydella DePlannel
than, the, Borough of St. Paneras, says the shirts for men can
Daily Telegraph. The valuable site, ex- tanding to about ten neres, if sold with adjoining property belonging to the charity, should realise upwards of a million sterling.
There is a history covering nearly two centuries attached to the Foundling Ho pital, which owes its foundation to Thoma Coram, who was bred to the, son, and became master of a vessel trading to the Colonies. While he was living at Rotber hithe his business caused him-to-journey to and from the City at early and late hours, and the mariner's heart was touch- ed by the frequency with which he saw deserted infants left to perish by the way. aide. In his travels abroad he had seen that provision was made for the un wanted mites, and he set to work to estab lish a harbour of refuge in this country. It was not easy to carry out his humane object. For seventeen years he laboured to fulfil his desire, and his efforts were crowned with access by the granting of a Royal charter on October 27th, 1730, for an hospital for exposed and deserted children after the example of France, Holland, and other Christian countries,” Governors were appointed, and a house was opened in Hutton-garden on March 25th, 1740.
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[To this house flocked the mothers who wished to rid themselves of their babes They just ang the bell, and no questions were asked as to parentage or anything else, the only bar to admission-boing-dia case. So simple was this system of free- dom from encumbrance that the house -rapidly-reached the limit of accommoda
tion, and a notice was displayed, sat theatres,House full. When there was room for about a wore the applicants were a hundred, and riotous conduct re wilted between the women. This led to n ballot, the mothers drawing balls-from: zu begit
THE FIRST REMOVAL,
Some years after the establishmens, of the institution in Hatton garden it was deemed expedient to make a move into more congenial quarters, fresh air being as necessary for children as for plants, and the governors, wandering about the
Bevelled Mirror tension Pictures : rabarbs," found a healthy spot in the
Bed Sheets Crockery, Glaaryar Ornaments, Cabines, Teak Bookcase, Dinner Waggons, Dining Chairs, Silver Wara, Clocks, Marble-top Washstands, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Set, Electric goods and a long line of Sundries.
Catalogues will be issued. Tanks Cash on delivery
balmy meads of Lamb's Conduit Fields, then far away out in the green pastures," and there the present hospital was erected Earl of Salisbury for £5,500-some autho on a part of ground purchased from the
rities any £7,000. The children came in
b from the old institution, and entry became casier than ever, a basket being bung at the gate: Women simply deposite
FRENCH LESSONS cd the baby in the basket, rang the bell,
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and left the rest to the officers of the estab lishment. The expenses of maintaming the hospital were five times greater than the income, and-Parliament voted £10,000 and gavo sanction to the establishment of country homes...
Coram, in his petition for a charter, "signed by twenty-one ladies of quality and distinction," had pointed that." no expedient had been found out for prevent- ing the frequent murders of poor infants," and the established in Lamb. tonduit- Fields actually had the effect of continu ing this unhappy phase of the situation. In order to get the little innocents "ap from the country, a branch of the curry-
STERILIZED ing trade was established, and the popu
NATURAL
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lation of the hospital grew rapidly. Con siderable um were paid for the convey: ance of the children, and as the fates were prepaid carriers found it to their advantage to lose their little passen- gers on the road. Many were drowned, and mere were sadly neglected. Ond carrier who had charge of five babies in baskets neglected them, and three of them died in a night on the journey. Clothing was stolen, with all cine of identity. One chiki so neglected became a banker in TIN LIKE after-life and endeavoured to trace his parentage, but his history at the hospital showed, that he was dropped naked into the basket at the gate. On the first day of reception 117 children were deposited.
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Token of identity left with the babies includes a ring with two hearts in garneta, broken and tied together; an acc of heart, with a verse written on it, several padlock lottery ticket, and a bookmark bearing the words, Cruel separation." In less than four years 13,000 babies were admitted. The gover Edors were faced by the withdrawal of the Government grant, and they made a rule to admit any child accompanied by a note for 2100, and that was in force for forty years, up to 1801
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MODERN METHODS.. Better rules on modern methods were in- froduced and continue to this day, the institution being well managed and doing very valuable work, about 300 children being cared for and fitted to take their place in the battle of life, the youngest of ther at the country homes. There have heen many bonefactors Hogarth was a governor and rendered great assistance to Coram, whose full-length portrait ho painted and presented to the hospital, with other pictures, Paintings at the bospital includo Hogarth's March of the Guards to Finchley, Sir Joshua direct from the Scottish Fisheries. Reynolds portrait of Lord Dartmouth, Gainsborough's "Charterhouse," and Hogarth's Moses brought to Pharoah's Daughter plane Handel was another benefactor. organ is still in the chapel upon which he fooquently played "The Messiah, the score of which he left to the hospital. Lysons says, "When the great master presided there, at his own oratorio, it was generally crowded, and he engaged most of the performers to contribute their assistance gratis. The profits to the charity were very considerable, in some, instancs approached nearly £1,000/- The chapel bir ao altar-pidco Christ presenting a little child by West Coram buried in the vaults, where there ziso Lord Chief Justice Tenterden and other-bensisetore
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