NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
June 14 2017
Calls are growing for a public inquiry into Northern Ireland’s former mother and baby homes after it has emerged that 43 babies died from severe malnutrition at two Belfast homes in a single year.
The institutions, run by the Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland and the Salvation Army, housed women and girls who were pregnant outside of marriage.
The Detail website found that in the year 1942 the mortality rate of babies born outside of marriage was twice that of those born to married parents.
Files at the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland show that pregnant girls as young as 13-years-old were sent to stay in the homes that existed from 1934 to 1949.
Among the key findings from an examination of a year of burial records for Milltown Cemetery’s Public Ground site by the investigatory website, was that 43 babies died in a single year from severe malnutrition from Nazareth House and Nazareth Lodge in Belfast.
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