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Non-Medical Public and Private Facilities > Residential Facilities > Orphanages
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Facilities > Residential Facilities > Orphanages

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Orphanages  

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Scope note

  • Institutions for the housing and care of orphans, foundlings, and abandoned children. They have existed as such since the medieval period but the heading is applicable to such usage also in modern parlance.

History note

  • 97

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019372

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