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London, city of lost hospitals
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Coasting to catastrophe
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The Foundling Hospital: the main buildings seen from within the grounds. Engraving by Elizabeth Byrne after J. P. Neale, 1816.
Neale, John Preston, 1771?-1847.Date: 1 June 1816Reference: 37762i- Books
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The curiosities of London and Westminster described. In four volumes. Embellished with elegant copper plates. Volume II. Containing a Description of Guildhall Guildhall Chapel The Bank of England St. Thomas's Hospital The Mansion House Foundling Hospital The East India House St. Stephen's Walbrook St. Mary le Bow Bridewell Hospital Christ's Hospital, and London Stone.
Date: [1783]- Books
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Whitelockes notes uppon the Kings writt for choosing members of Parlement XIII Car II being disquisitions on the government of England by King Lords and Commons. Published by Charles Morton, M. D. Secretary of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and of the imperial Leopoldine and Petersburg Academies, First Under Librarian of the British Museum, and Physician to the Foundling Hospital. ...
Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 1676.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes. Observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital, shewing the ill consequences of giving public support thereto. Considerations relating to the poor and th poor's-laws of England; Wherein the great Increases of Unemployed Poor, and of Thieves and Prostitutes, are shewn to be immediately owing to the Severity, as well as the Defects of our Poor's - Laws; and to be primarily caused by the Monopolizing of Farms, and the Indosure of Common Lands; which have likewise decreased the Number of People, and brought our Woollen Manufacturies into a precarious State, as is made appear by Extracts from several Laws and other Authorities. Also, a New System of Policy, Most humbly proposed, for Relieving, Employing, and Ordering the Poor of England; Whereby a great Saving may be made in the Charge of Maintaining Them; the Poor's - Rates be kept nearly Equal in all Parishes, as in Equity they ought to be; and every Pretence for wandering about Begging, be taken away. To which are annexed, Forms of the principal Accounts necessary to be kept for those Purposes, whereby such Persons as are not conversant in Accounting will easily be able to comprehend all that is here proposed on that Head. By J. Massie.
Massie, J. (Joseph), -1784.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The foundling hospital for wit.
Date: 1743-1749