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claration ofabandonment made before an othcer.


Most of the Infants, however, are abandoned
clandestinely. There is a Lodge at the gateway
Of the Hospital, through the wall OF which box
is exposed to the public street The persons de
posting Infants in this box rlng bell, when
nurse, who is always waiting INSIDE, turns the
box on a pivot inwards, receives the helpless
Founding, and the guilty parent goes away uli-
discovered The number of Children thus unna


nlratIy abandoned, within the last ten years, Is
14243 From 600 to 800 of these Children
were yearly sent from the LylDg-ln and other
Hospitals, from Mothers who were unable to take
care Of them. There was, too, d diminished
number in each Of the ten succeeding years. In
1880 the number was 5,230, and IN 1889, 1t was
3.lS2 OF this last number, 81 Z, or nearly | III
4 died during the year. The number of Child.
ren belonging to the Institution, and placed on;
at nurse, in 1889, was 1919. Nurses come
daily from the country after Children, for taking
care Of each Of whom they receive from to Q
francs month. There are not generally more
than one hundred Infants in the Hospital "
this number, when We visited 1t, ten had been re-
celved within the last twenly-tour hours and SIT
Of these were deposited in the box during the pre-
vious night. We passed through the different
Wards ofthe Hospital with a Nurse. More than
half Of these he'll plcss nnocents were i'll; and all
but such as slept, were weeping in voices so fee
bic and plaintive that the most rugged nature
could not restrain its tribute Of tears. never
saw, nor can conceive Of, a scene 50 keeniy
touching as this There can be no stronger ap-
peal to our compassion than the forlorn condition


OF these poor Foundlingg. They truly are the
shorn lambs" for whom "God tempers the
winds" Hcrc, too as in other Hospitals, we
found the Sisters of Charity, true to Their benc;
yocnt duties, kindly and patiently, By DAY and
by night, receiving and protecting the most help
less Of all the heirs of sin, destitution and mis-