Home > Categories > Social Sciences and the Law > Sociology and Social Reform > Sociology: General Terms and Concepts > foundling hospital

foundling hospital

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

foundling hospital institution for receiving and caring for abandoned children. In Athens and in Rome until the 4th cent., unwanted children were exposed, or left to die, in appointed places. The first modern foundling hospital was established by the archpriest of Milan in 787. Other cities throughout Europe followed this example. One of the best-known of such hospitals was founded in 1739 in London by Thomas Coram . In the United States, the first foundling hospital, St. Vincent's Infant Asylum, was begun in 1856 by Roman Catholic nuns in Baltimore. It was followed shortly by the founding of other infant asylums supported by religious denominations or private philanthropies. In both Great Britain and the United States foundling hospitals have for the most part been replaced by foster care programs under the supervision of state welfare agencies. Other maternal- and child-care programs are financed by municipal agencies or under social security programs.

Bibliography: See M. P. Hall, The Social Services of Modern England (6th ed., rev. 1963).

Author not available, FOUNDLING HOSPITAL., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press

For permission to reuse this article, contact Copyright Clearance Center.

Related articles from HighBeam Research:

	THE NEW FOUNDLING HOSPITAL FOR WIT: FROM HANBURY WILLIAMS TO JOHN WILKES.(Critical Essay) Studies in the Literary Imagination; 3/22/2001; Nichol, Donald W.; 6887 words; ... imagination. The choice of the Foundling Hospital as a last resort for ... children at the real Foundling Hospital, The Foundling Hospital for Wit appeared in London ... for establishing an hospital for the reception and ... a parody of the real Foundling Hospital's ...
	My years of agonising guilt and blame as one of the lost children Next week sees the opening of a museum celebrating London's first orphanage. Here, speaking for the first time, one of the Foundling Hospital's very last orphans talks about his life as an unwanted child es review Evening Standard - London; 6/9/2004; ALISON ROBERTS; 1774 words; ... pencils by the staff at the Foundling Hospital in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire ... never heard of Thomas Coram's Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 and originally ... babies were "rescued" by the Foundling Hospital, some found literally on the ...
	My years of agonising guilt and blame as one of the lost children; Next week sees the opening of a museum celebrating London's first orphanage. Here, speaking for the first time, one of the Foundling Hospital's very last orphans talks about his life as an unwanted child es review. The Evening Standard (London, England); 6/9/2004; 1773 words; ... pencils by the staff at the Foundling Hospital in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire ... never heard of Thomas Coram's Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 and originally ... babies were rescued by the Foundling Hospital, some found literally on the ...
	New museum honours philapthropist who saved city's abandoned babies; In the 18th-century, Thomas Coram set up the Foundling Hospital, London's first children's charity. Its art collection is to go on show.(News) The Independent (London, England); 4/22/2004; Jury, Louise; 920 words; ... first children's charity, the Foundling Hospital, which by dint of his social ... vulnerable in society was scant. The Foundling Hospital's work continued in central ... escape pollution. The original Foundling Hospital was demolished.. In 1953 the ...
	New York Foundling Hospital to Honor Cardinal O'Connor and Richard A. Italian Voice, The; 11/19/1998; 422 words; ... Voice, The 11-19-1998 New York Foundling Hospital to Honor Cardinal O'Connor ... oadway's Patti Lu Pone The New York Foundling Hospital will honor John Cardinal O ... will receive The New York Foundling Hospital Humanitarian Award for his ...
	In Rome, foundlings find a haven Hospital welcomes unwanted babies International Herald Tribune; 2/28/2007; Elisabetta Povoledo; 671 words; ... babies in a ''foundling wheel'' a revolving ... seen.Now a Rome hospital, the Casilino ... version of the foundling wheel, and for ... neonatal unit at the hospital.''We weren't expecting ... goes off in the hospital's emergency room ... This is the foundling wheel of the third ... initiative ... .
	Plenty of TLC for abandoned baby Zack; Hospital plea to mother of foundling.(News) Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 9/22/2007; 614 words; ... Correspondent DOZENS of people have phoned hospital staff to enquire about the welfare of ... inside a bag. Nurses at Liverpool Women's Hospital named him Zack, after the Fazakerley ... and the baby was taken to Fazakerley Hospital nearby and later to Liverpool Women's ...
	A foundling wheel for the 21st century International Herald Tribune; 2/27/2007; Elisabetta Povoledo; 892 words; ... unwanted babies in a ''foundling wheel'' a revolving ... seen. Now a Rome hospital, the Casilino Polyclinic ... version of the foundling wheel, and for ... goes off in the hospital's emergency room ... specialists.''This is the foundling wheel of the third ... the Santo Spirito hospital in ...
	125 anos de servicio a menesterosos de NY: The New York Foundling El Diario/La Prensa; 1/11/1994; Reginaldo Atanay; 421 words; ... servicio a menesterosos de NY: The New York Foundling. Hospital: The New York Foundling Hospital, una organizacin especializada en ayudar ... impuestos-pueden enviarlas a: The New York Foundling Hospital, 590 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N ...
	Dumped on a doorstep at birth, I share a unique and tragic bond with foundling children all over the world Daily Mail; 12/17/2003; ANDREW DONALD; 1032 words; I ALWAYS knew I was a foundling, discovered wrapped in newspaper and ... by police officers who took me to a hospital in Lewisham where I was named Peter ... ask if they dumped a baby? The way foundlings are treated is terrible there is hardly ...
	Dumped on a doorstep at birth, I share a unique and tragic bond with foundling children all over the world. The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/17/2003; 1039 words; ... ANDREW DONALD I ALWAYS knew I was a foundling, discovered wrapped in newspaper ... police officers who took me to a hospital in Lewisham where I was named Peter ... if they dumped a baby? The way foundlings are treated is terrible - there ...
	Yukiko Ishida at the Foundling Museum Musical Opinion; 3/1/2008; Davies, Margaret; 375 words; ... displaying works by Hogarth, Gainsborough and Reynolds in the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury was the setting for the song recital ... Malcolm Miller on 13 January. The association of the original Foundling Hospital with George Frideric Handel, one of its principal supporters ...
	I was dumped in a loo but I'm not angry, just so sad; ANGUISH OF THE FOUNDLING BABIES.(Features) The Mirror (London, England); 2/28/1996; Ward, Amanda; 790 words; ... toilet. He is one of Britain's foundling babies - last year there were ... baby. For this is no bright hospital ward filled with happy mothers ... call us on 0171 293 3251. THE Foundling Group puts foundlings in touch with each other and ...
	FOCUS: ABANDONED BABIES; What drives a mother to discard her newborn? Foundlings evoke another, more wretched age. But their numbers are on the increase.(Features) The Independent Sunday (London, England); 4/1/2001; Pepinster, Catherine; 1198 words; ... wrapped in a pink blanket. A foundling. It's a word that evokes another ... parenthood commonplace, the number of foundlings is on the rise again. Last year ... of the Sunday paper Reynolds News in London in 1955, found great ... She and other members of the Foundling Group, run by the adoption ...
	Last Night's TV - The lottery that saved some foundlings The Northern Echo; 4/18/2003; Steve Pratt; 413 words; ... at England's first hospital for foundlings. Infants of mothers ... charter to establish the hospital. Most people, he reported ... gentleman came to see the foundlings eat and sleep. They ... The death rate of foundlings only improved after ...