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    Child Abandonment in 19th Century Lisbon: The Provenance and Distribution of Foundlings Through a GIS Lens by Joana Vieira Paulino

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…To produce a spatial and visual representation of this distribution and coverage to address the research questions, this analysis relies on the SCML quantitative reports and on SIGMA, a GIS-database designed to depict the evolutions in Portuguese administrative divisions. We conclude that most foundlings came from Lisbon and, in later years, from those Lisbon parishes hosting the popular and working classes, and later preferably distributed to wet nurses living in the countryside, thereby achieving the institution’s goals. …”
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