In less than four years, 14,934 children were presented to the Foundling Hospital at great expense to the House of Lords, with many kids being mistreated; the House discontinued indiscriminate admission practices to the hospital.
In less than four years 14,934 children were presented, and a vile trade grew up among vagrants, who sometimes became known as "Coram Men", of promising to carry children from the country to the hospital, an undertaking which they often did not perform or performed with great cruelty. 
