The second is possibly that compared with other solutions, the care in orphanages was not as poor as was sometimes suggested.
From 1950 to 1954, about 400 to 500 children were adopted from this orphanage by domestic families.
Table 3 shows for a few selected subcategories the proportions who were admitted to one of the orphanages.
It is a particularly telling fact about these orphanages that children didn't necessarily have to be orphaned to be placed in them.
Though we were outsiders, once at the orphanage we too became enmeshed in this nested power structure.
In order to prevent infant mortality at the orphanage the employment of wet-nurses was seen as necessary.
It may also reflect a self-soothing strategy or an attempt to self-stimulate in the barren orphanage rooms.
The orphanage employed only one director and one nurse to look after newly found orphans and abandoned children.
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