An Earnest Appeal for Mercy to the Children of the Poor
Jonas Hanway
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An Earnest Appeal for Mercy to the Children of the Poor

Particularly Those Belonging to the Parishes Within the Bills of Mortality

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In eighteenth-century London, abandoned children were one of the social groups most affected by the harsh living conditions. Several charitable initiatives had endeavoured to alleviate the problem, not least the Foundling Hospital, of which Jonas Hanway (c.1712-86) was a governor. His tireless philanthropy and campaigning resulted in the 1762 Registers Bill, which required parishes to keep records of the poor children they looked after. In this tract, first published in 1766, Hanway uses information collected from these registers to demonstrate the appalling mortality rates of orphans in care ...