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Killing your baby. What could be more depraved? Every year hundreds of women and men commit -they kill their newborns or let them die. Most s remain undiscovered but every now and then a janitor follows a trail of blood to a tiny body in a trash bin. (Pinker, N ....

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.... whether the Foundling Hospitals would help to reduce the rate of . Studies show there was a high rate of within the hospitals themselves. (King, Once A Week, Sept. 1865) Most of these institutions prove to be more cruel than direct . Due to insufficient hospital staff and the inefficiency of adoption procedures, human babies died in misery from sheer neglect. (Piers, 14,82) There are no available statistics that demonstrate an increase in the incidence of during the mid-Victorian years. Yet there is no doubt that there was a dramatic increase in public and professional concern about the issue during this time. Newspapers, quarterlies, profe ....