116 BRITISH ASSOCIATION.- 1835 . 
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1831. 
1832. 
1833. 
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7 
The average expense of each child in charge of the Foundling 
Hospital, at a time when a large boarding-school establishment, with 
educational and hospital staff, was kept up, may be stated at 51. per 
annum. In the year 1826 the whole number of children amounted 
to 6339; and of these upwards of one sixth were maintained in 
the hospital at an annual expense, for feeding and clothing, of 
from 61. to 7 l. per child. The whole expense during that year was 
33,729 l. 9s. 10|tA, being a fraction more than 51. per child. This 
included all expenses, salaries, wages, annuities, repairs of buildings, 
and apprentice fees. 
Under the present parochial system, the nurses’ wages alone va¬ 
ries from Is. 6d. to 2 s. per week, or from 31. 18s. to 51. 4s. per annum. 
There is also an additional expense incurred with each child for keep¬ 
ing before it is sent to nurse, which in one parish (Anne’s) amounts 
to 5s. per diem. The parish children are as yet too young to require 
any additional expenditure; but in a few years a considerable de¬ 
mand must be made for education, clothing, and apprentice fees. 
The items of expenditure in the Foundling Hospital, exclusive of 
salaries and expenses of establishment, are- as follow: 
Allowance to nurse for first five years, 3/. per annum, with, at the 
end of the first year, a gratuity for good nursing, of 2/.; after the 
fifth year, 10s. is allowed yearly for clothing and education. 
A table has been constructed, showing the proportion of the sexes 
of children received into the Foundling Hospital during twenty-four 
years; from which it appears that of 32,324, 15,179 were males, 
and 17,145 females. 
The large table from which the statements made in the com¬ 
mencement of this abstract were deduced, contains several particu¬ 
lars respecting the children in charge of the hospital since 1798. 
These, however, would not admit of being presented in abstract. 
Tables have been constructed, showing the yearly number of ad¬ 
missions into the Foundling Flospital from the different parishes of 
Dublin during twelve years preceding its closure, and also the yearly 
number deserted in the same parishes since the shutting up of the 
hospital in 1831. The results of these are contrasted in the accom¬ 
panying tables, which show the average yearly desertions under each 
system. 
