Foundling Hospital

The Foundling Hospital is a foundling hospital in London by former Captain Thomas Coram was founded in 1739 and opened in 1741. It served mainly the inclusion of Findel and orphans and infants poor, often single mothers who could not take care of the livelihood of their offspring.

History

The facility is funded by donations and donations of wealthy citizens and nobles. The infants could be stored anonymously in a box at the entrance of the institution or discharged from their mothers at the Hospital staff. The children here have been supplied with clothing, distributed as infants to wet nurses in and outside the city, brought up in the Christian faith and to the extent trained school that they could do an apprenticeship later.

Although it is repeatedly emphasized that the care of the children was exemplary for the prevailing conditions, survived in the first fifteen years after the establishment of the institution, only about half their students. In comparison, the infant mortality rate of boulders lay in the normal arms and workhouses at almost 99%. When Parliament decreed that all infants who were offered the institution had to be taken, and the Foundling Hospital was overflowing as a result of prior infants, the number of deaths increased dramatically: from about 15,000 children died in three years more than 10,000. The Parliament then pulled back its support.

Among the founding members and the Executive Board of the Foundling Hospital were famous men of the time, including Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, the musician Georg Friedrich Handel and the painter William Hogarth.

Connection to the art scene

The meeting room of the institution was also used exhibitions of contemporary English art, and in the chapel took place concerts, so that the hospital also developed into a cultural center. Donated a Hogarth and other English artists in 1746 the institution several paintings with biblical scenes that show about the discovery of the little Moses in the basket, the boy Moses in front of Pharaoh's daughter or poor children before Christ. In the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales Handel was on 27 May 1749 the chapel a three-part, compiled from previous and newly composed works one-off concert with the famous anthem "Blessed are they did Consider the Poor and Needy ". 1750 donated the composer an organ for the chapel and began the tradition to perform there every year his " Messiah".

Later, it was out of the hospital, the " Thomas Coram Foundation for Children ." and the artistic treasures of the Foundation are to be seen today in the " Foundling Museum ".

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