Where: The Foundling Hospital, Coram Fields

Who: The Hospital Surgeon

To date seven children have succumbed, it is generally the newly arrived. One is now a label marked GIN, one a pen knife, one a baby’s shoe, one a beating cane, one a sieve, one a doormat; two of them are pen nibs now. The rest of the children are most distressed and cease to play with the objects set aside for them, but rather sit now their hands in their laps regarding one another with the highest anxiety. Some cry. Some shout. All are put out. We have had some music performed by the children’s choir but it has done but little good.