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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