At 10.30 on a Friday night in October 1893 Constable Farmer, patrolling Tupper Street, Enmore, stumbled across a 3-week-old baby girl. The child was on the footpath, perhaps to be easily discovered, and the constable took her to the Benevolent Asylum in the city. However, this was no guarantee of safety or survival. In the… Continue reading Where the babies went: baby farming and child abandonment
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