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In a message dated 10/20/00 11:48:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
kenheslin(a)prodigy.net writes:
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Lyons" <jlyons1(a)iol.ie>
To: <IRELAND-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 11:23 AM
Subject: [IRELAND] The Foundling Hospital - a repost.
> Those who entered the workhouses were not just Catholics - they were poor
> people of all religions. There was only one recognised religion in
Ireland
> and it has to be remembered that no matter what religion you practised if
> you were not Church of Ireland you were in the same boat as the Catholics.
> This is not just true of Ireland at that time, it is also true of England.
> Anyone in England who was not Church of England fared as badly as did
> Catholics in Ireland if they were poor to start with.
>
> What is written here can be compared with other parts of the world today -
> India with all her poverty and other countries such as Romania where so
many
> children were kept in orphanages in the past.
>
> Here in Ireland - we have children living on the streets today - as you do
> whoever you are and whatever part of the world you live in.
>
> Jane
> -------------
> The Foundling Hospital: was part of the Dublin workhouse. It was so named
in
> 1730. Children received into it were foundlings and all illigitimate.
>
> There were not supposed to be babies amongst them, as children under the
age
> of 6 supposed to be cared for by their own parishes. In each parish
> Churchwardens employed a woman. the 'lifter' and it was her job to go
round
> the Parish at night 'lifting' any babies she found lying about. She
brought
> them to the next Parish and dumped them! Sometimes she placed a lump of
> narcotic called diacodioum in the mouth to stupify the child and stop it
> from crying There were also times that the 'lifter' in the second parish
> found the child and dumped it somewhere else if not back in its own. One
> woman had 'lifted' 27 children one year, and 7 died in her hands. These
> women knew nothing of what happened the chldren once they dumped them....
>
>
> Babies were brought to the Foundling Hospital in Dublin and they were fed
on
> Panda..(bread and milk)...At an inquiry in 1797 the matron said the diet
was
> unfit to sustain life! The feeding of panda to children had been carried
out
> for 67 years
>
> Ghastly happenings were reported from the Foundling Hospital: once 13
babies
> bodies found buried in a pit. A workman found two dead infants wrapped in
a
> cloth, these were identified by the marks on their arms,. Babies were
> 'branded' before being sent out of this place to nurses around the city to
> be minded.
> Children from all over the country were brought to this workhouse, carried
> by women in baskets, just thrown into the basket, up to 8 at a time. Some
> found dead on arrival or seriously injured.
>
> At an inquiry 1797:it was reported that corpses were thrown into a hole
and
> covered with quick lime.
>
> >From 1750-1760: 7,781 admitted; 3,797 died..and 3,932 put out to nurse.
>
> Mothers often tried to get their children back, usually they didn't.
>
> Older workhouse children were fed:
> Breakfast: 1/4 lb porridge and a pint of milk
> Dinner: pint of milk porridge
> Supper: 1/4lb bread, spread with fresh butter
> 3oz cheese twice a week
> Older children still:
> 1/2 pint beer & 1/4 lb bread (beer not very strong)
>
> Comments from inmates and experts or people who had anything to do with it
> in later years.
> Food always bad, cockroaches, crickets, earwigs. Stirabout thin and watery
> full of lumps. Maggots in bread,, meat often stinking.
> Clothes: for girls very scanty. One petticoat, which was last years frock.
> Neither frocks nor coats worn by boys were lined. No waistocats.
> Children in the infirmary slept on straw, thrown on the bed. One thin
> underblanket and another thin blanket for covering. When a child died,
it's
> boots and stockings and linen weren't buried with it but passed on to
other
> children.
>
> Overcrowding was dreadful. 4-8 to one bed. The windows in the room where
> children assembled in the morning were broken.
> Childrens feet covered with sores, and their hands were often so swollen
> that they could not draw the thread sewing. They were afflicted with the
> 'itch'. (Today the 'itch' would refer to scabies which does occur on the
> hands)
>
> The children were savagely punished at times: one boy complained about
> badness of bread and he got 20 lashes with cat of 9 tails. Children were
> stripped to waist and lashed, a 7-8 yr old got 8-9 lashes for being slow
to
> go to bed. An older offender got 60 lashes and had an iron weight tied to
> his leg.
>
> One part of house was known as 'Bedlam'..reserved for lunatics. Children
> were sent there for complaining (considered refractory): this place even
> dustier, darker and more generally uncomfortable. The children dreaded
> confinement in this place.
>
> Two old women, both infirm, minded 60 sick children under 8 years of age
in
> the infirmary. The beds were filthy.
>
> The 'dead hole' was a step or two from the infirmary door. A carpenter
once
> told someone that he had seen three dead children in a bed. One witness
> declared that he had seen 30-35 dead children come away for burial at one
> time.
>
>
>
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