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Between 1790 and 1796 some 5,216 infants were sent there, of whom 5,215 died. Between 1796 and 1826 51,150 infants were admitted to the hospital, of whom 41,524 died. In 1829 the select committee on the Irish miscellaneous estimates recommended that no further assistance should be given. Only during
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