A short account of the Magdalen Hospital.

  • Magdalen Hospital (London, England)
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short account of the Magdalen Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ the relief and reformation of wretched out¬ casts from society ; and the principle on which it is founded gives it, surely, some title to the countenance and favour of the Public, and particularly of the Female Sex ; and her Most Gracious Majesty lias set the example, by taking this Hospital under her more immediate patronage. And what can possibly be an object more wor¬ thy of their care, than the rescuing from the deepest woe and distress the most miser¬ able of their fellow-creatures ; leading them back from vice to virtue and happiness ; re¬ conciling the deluded and betrayed daugh¬ ter to her offended mother; and restoring hundreds of unfortunate young women to industry, again to become useful members of that community in which Providence has placed them ? i The Magdalen Hospital was opened in the year 1758. During the period that it lias subsisted, more than two-thirds of the women, who have been admitted, have been reconciled to their friends, or placed m