Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe / Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report - Nassau William Senior

(e) A tour in Mons, and one in Tournay.

(f) No tour.

(g) A hospital, but no tour.

N.B. There are tours at Antwerp, Mechlin, Brussels, Louvain, Ghent, Mons, and Tournay; seven in all.

N.B. A tour is a horizontal wheel, with a box for the reception of the infant, which, when empty, is open to the street, and when full is turned into the interior of the house.

YEAR 1833.

PROVINCES.	Number of		Total.	Expenses of				TOTAL EXPENSES.
PROVINCES.	Foundlings.	Deserted Children.	Total.	Foundlings.		Deserted Children.		TOTAL EXPENSES.
Anvers	886	578	1,464	37,107	65	26,927	61	64,035	26
Brabant	2,648	318	2,966	182,321	69	23,081	84	205,403	53
Fl. Occidentale	39	460	499	3,258	67	31,841	89	35,100	56
Fl. Orientale	752	242	994	49,874	81	14,902	67	64,717	48
Hainault	1,969	382	2,351	123,368	71	23,533	18	146,901	89
Liége	38	162	200	2,899	0	12,857	04	15,756	04
Limbourg	14	157	171	913	96	11,054	44	12,968	40
Luxembourg	7	31	38	880	94	3,212	80	4,093	74
Namur	615	7	622	41,082	0	467	60	41,549	60
	6,968	2,337	9,305	442,647	43	147,879	07	590,526	60

Foundlings.

It appears from this statement that in the provinces of Antwerp, Brabant, and Hainault, containing a population of 1,514,072 persons, and possessing each two public receptacles for foundlings, the number of foundlings in 1833 was 5,404, or 1 in 278: that in Flandre Orientale and Namur, containing a population of 946,663, and possessing each a single public receptacle, the number of foundlings was 1367, or 1 in 699; and that in Flandre Occidentale, Liége, Limbourg and Luxembourg, containing a population of 1,601,469, but having no such establishment, the number of foundlings was 98, or less than 1 in 16,000. Nor does this difference arise from an increased number of deserted children in those provinces in which foundling hospitals do not exist: on the contrary, the numbers in the second column, comprising both orphans and deserted children, in the four provinces in which no foundling hospitals exist, amount to 910, out of a population of 1,601,469, being 1 in 1649, whereas those in Antwerp, Brabant and Hainault amount to 1356, out of a population of 1,514,077, or 1 in 116; and when it is recollected that the proportion of orphans can scarcely differ in the different provinces, and that in the second column they are mixed with the deserted children, the superiority of the four former provinces over the three latter will be found to be really much greater than it appears.