Volume 1

The report of the general committee for directing, managing, and transacting the business, affairs, estate, and effects of the corporation of the governors and guardians of the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children : relating to the general plan for executing the purposes of the Royal Charter, establishing this Hospital.

  • Foundling Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1740
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The report of the general committee for directing, managing, and transacting the business, affairs, estate, and effects of the corporation of the governors and guardians of the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children : relating to the general plan for executing the purposes of the Royal Charter, establishing this Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ + ] As your Revenue at prefent amounts only to about Six hundred Pounds a Year, it will require the greateft Frugality to maintain even Sixty Children, and to pay the neceflary Officers and Servants, without a Diminution of your Capital, we have therefore ufed our utmoft Atten¬ tion to prevent even a Poffibility of any Mifapplication of your Income, and to make your Accompts eafily intelligible to every Perfon who ffiall define to infpedt them. As the Prefervation of the Children who ffiall be received into the Hofpital muft greatly depend on the Care of Nurfes, we have propofed a Method by which their Behaviour will continually be fubjedl to the Infpedlion of the Governors of this Hofpital, in a Rotation ; which, if ap- * proved of, we think will be greatly to the Benefit of the Charity, and not be trou- blefome to the Governors, fmee the At¬ tendance of each Governor, two or three Mornings in a Year, would be fufficient for that Purpofe. We hope, in this Refpe£t, this Corpo¬ ration may receive Affiflance from other Perlons, whole Charity may induce them to vifit your Hofpital, and infpefl its Ma¬ nagement, fince they may be affured your Committee will always pay due Regard to any Advice or Information which fuch A Perfons ffiall give them, either verbally, or