Table 1 Infants dying in foundling homes in European cities or nations with two cases of deaths to infants placed into care homes in the countryside. Data from [34]
City or country | Year | Percent dying |
|---|---|---|
Irkutsk | No date given | 100 |
Dublin | I701–1797 | 98 |
Petersburg | 1772–1784 | 85 |
Brussels | 1811 | 79 |
Petersburg | 1785–1797 | 76 |
Vienna | 1811 | 72 |
Paris | 1780 | 69 |
Paris | 1817 | 67 |
Moscow | 1822–1831 | 66 |
Gent | 1823–1833 | 62 |
Dijon | 1838–1845 | 61 |
Mons | 1823–1833 | 57 |
Brussels | 1817 | 56 |
Belgium | 1823–1833 | 54 |
Petersburg | 1830–1833 | 51 |
France | 1838–1875 | 50 |
Prague | 1865 | 20 |
Infants placed in the countryside | 35 | |
Bordeaux | 1850–1861 | 18 |
Infants placed in the countryside | 15 |