13 Facts About Foundling Hospital

Nevertheless, one of the top priorities of the committee at the Foundling Hospital was children's health, as they combated smallpox, fevers, consumption, dysentery and even infections from everyday activities like teething that drove up mortality rates and risked epidemics.

London hospital was preceded by the Foundling Hospital, Dublin, founded 1704, and the Foundling Hospital, Cork, founded 1737, both funded by government.

The new Foundling Hospital was described as "the most imposing single monument erected by eighteenth century benevolence".

All the children at the Foundling Hospital were those of unmarried women, and they were all first children of their mothers.

Thereafter, the Foundling Hospital instituted more thorough investigation of its prospective apprentice masters and mistresses.

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Foundling Hospital grew to become a very fashionable charity, and it was supported by many noted figures of the day in high society and the arts.

Foundling Hospital designed the children's uniforms and the coat of arms, and he and his wife Jane fostered foundling children.

Exhibitions of pictures at the Foundling Hospital, which were organised by the Dilettante Society, led to the formation of the Royal Academy in 1768.

Foundling Hospital bequeathed to the hospital a fair copy of the work.

Foundling Hospital hoped to transfer Covent Garden Market to the site, but the local residents successfully opposed that plan.

The Berkhamsted buildings were sold to Hertfordshire County Council for use as a school and the Foundling Hospital changed its name to the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and currently uses the working name Coram.

Foundling Hospital is the setting for Jamila Gavin's 2000 novel Coram Boy.

The Foundling Hospital is mentioned in Emerald Star, although it is mainly about Hetty growing up.