Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital
by
Gilliam Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
In 1739 Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of children dying on the dung heaps of London. These children, mostly foundlings and orphans, were products of a poverty-stricken society where the attitude towards babies born outside of wedlock meant a life of rejection and inferiority. After...