Thomas coram 's foundling hospital opened in 1741 to look after the abandoned babies of unmarried mothers , attracting support from the cream of society .
托马斯.coram的育婴医院于1741年成立，专门收养未婚妈妈们的弃婴，寻求社会精英的支持。
Foundling wheels were an artefact of medieval times ; but they reappeared in 2000 in hamburg , where a lot of abandoned babies were dying .
In other pictures , thomson captured the sorry inmates of a " foundling " hospital where orphaned children were offered for free to " respectable people " , and a public street slide-show where the public could see images from exotic and faraway places often to gasps of amazement .
