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Originally Posted by Cherie
Infant mortality in England and Wales peaked in the 1890s at a tremendously high rate of approximately 150 deaths per 1000 births. These statistics demonstrate that, for both the adults and children that family historians study, the world was a dangerous place! The situation today is, of course, much improved.
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It was a time of high infant mortality Cherie but if the graves of the.nuns are well tended and the children thrown in some pit it shows a significant lack of care and value of the existence of all those children and that's pretty vile as is the idea that because parents weren't married children couldn't be baptised. An innocent child is not responsible for any rules their parent breaks. It's clear there was a level of neglect in these institutions and even levels of malnutrition as outlined in the case in Ireland in a report in the 1940s. It doesn't matter what era it was, the nuns had a duty of care and it seems particularly careless in the way these bodies were disposed of.
Many good people may have gone into the church but you don't hear of those people ever rocking the boat and speaking out about these terrible things.