There was never a rich baby left out on the streets, only those who came from an extremely poor mother. Most babies come from the East where their mothers were not married and had no name other than their own to bestow upon the baby. In most cases, mothers would only wrap the innocent babies in newspaper. In rare occasions, they were some found in a clean slip and a little message pinned onto their diaper. The messages would be a note for those who picked them up, thanking them and asking them to please take care of them. The Sisters of Charity takes on the task of picking them up. During the midwinter when families were inside their homes wrapped in warm blanks or during the hottest steaming days when families were enjoying days in a swimming pool, at least 3 babies were found in hallways and areas of the rich. They were left near areas where rich people lived because mothers thought that those happier hearts may have love to spare for their little ones. Which the mother were wrong. A deserted baby will never find home and friends at once. The babies are sent to Randall’s Island Hospital where they are given a number and a bottle then hope for someone to rescue them. Sometimes the babies are half dead by the time they find them.
There was never a rich baby left out on the streets, only those who came from an extremely poor mother. Most babies come from the East where their mothers were not married and had no name other than their own to bestow upon the baby. In most cases, mothers would only wrap the innocent babies in newspaper. In rare occasions, they were some found in a clean slip and a little message pinned onto their diaper. The messages would be a note for those who picked them up, thanking them and asking them to please take care of them. The Sisters of Charity takes on the task of picking them up. During the midwinter when families were inside their homes wrapped in warm blanks or during the hottest steaming days when families were enjoying days in a swimming pool, at least 3 babies were found in hallways and areas of the rich. They were left near areas where rich people lived because mothers thought that those happier hearts may have love to spare for their little ones. Which the mother were wrong. A deserted baby will never find home and friends at once. The babies are sent to Randall’s Island Hospital where they are given a number and a bottle then hope for someone to rescue them. Sometimes the babies are half dead by the time they find them.