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26. Condition of Infants received at the Montreal 

 Foundling Hospital. 



Without covering 



With only a cotton cloth 



Almost frozen 



Bleeding tbrou'^Ii want of the necessary } 



offices al liiiUi. ... \ 



Not washud after birth 



Wounded by Instruments 



Tainted with Syphilis 



Sick 



Dving 



Dead 



With bloody flux 



With Ha-morrhage of the lungs 



Not classed as above, but frequently ^ 



covered with vermin j 



Total received 



1867. 



Whenever there appears a chance of life, these infants are sent 

 into the country, in the care of nurses under surveillance. Even 

 under favourable circumstances, there would be but poor chance 

 of saving the livesof most of these abandoned ones; but it appears 

 from a Report presented by the Medical officers to the City 

 Council that the nurses are often unable to supply them with 

 natural aliment. When they die, the corpses are sent to Montreal 

 for interment, and are entered in our city bills of mortality, as 

 their baptisms had been in the Protonotary's returns. The 

 following statistics have been compiled from the Register of 

 Deaths kept at the Hopital General. 



