The Register of Deaths from Bessborough Mother and Baby home reveals that during certain months in the 1940s the death rate among children living in the home amounted to a child dying roughly every second day.
For many years, Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, in Co. Cork,
run by the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, was an
institution where pregnant and unmarried women were referred to before
they gave birth as, at the time, having a child outside of marriage was
considered a serious sin in Ireland.
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