South London Observer: Wednesday 7th August 1878

Wholesale Baby Farming: At the Birmingham Police court, Ann Pinsent, a midwife, living at Nechells, was charged with concealing the birth of a child of an unmarried woman, who had been confined at her house.  … the skeleton of no fewer than eleven infants had already been found buried in the garden adjoining the prisoner’s house … On the following day the child was alleged by the prisoner to have died from convulsions. The prisoner was remanded for a week.


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