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SUMMARY:Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment\, c. 1750-1850: S
 ome Preliminary Findings - Helen Berry (Newcastle)
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CONTACT:Amy Erickson
DESCRIPTION:This paper presents preliminary findings on the occupational d
 estination of children whose upbringing was co-ordinated by the London Fou
 ndling Hospital and its satellite institutions. This is the first attempt 
 at applying quantitative and qualitative methods to the analysis of c. 5\,
 800 apprenticeship records which were kept with remarkable diligence by th
 e Hospital's Governors and administrators during the first century of the 
 Hospital's existence. The industrial-scale 'processing' of infants and the
 ir progress through the systems created and overseen by the Hospital's Gov
 ernors\, including the period of 'General Admission' when the charity was 
 funded by direct government grant\, makes it possible to gauge the geograp
 hical distribution\, and occupational grouping\, of foundling hospital chi
 ldren with some precision\, using records for first\, sometimes multiple\,
  apprenticeships. Linking the foundling apprentice database with GIS softw
 are and a modified form of PST coding makes it possible to map the distrib
 ution and occupational clustering of foundlings.
LOCATION:History Faculty Room 12
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