Svobodný P
University Archive, Charles University, Prague.
J Fam Hist. 1994;19(2):117-29. doi: 10.1177/036319909401900205.
During most of the eighteenth century the Italian Hospital in Prague served mostly as a home for foundlings and orphans, who remained in the Hospital until they were around age twenty. The Hospital's death register is an important source for the study of mortality patterns among infants, children, and young persons in their teens, but the information in it has to be evaluated critically. Analysis of death patterns suggests that the Hospital's care system was not able to reduce significantly the expected high infant and child mortality rates, but also that the Hospital's residents did enjoy certain kinds of care that were not available to children in private homes.
在18世纪的大部分时间里，布拉格的意大利医院主要作为弃婴和孤儿的收容所，这些孩子会一直留在医院，直到20岁左右。医院的死亡登记册是研究婴儿、儿童和十几岁青少年死亡率模式的重要资料来源，但其中的信息必须经过严格评估。对死亡模式的分析表明，医院的护理系统无法显著降低预期的高婴儿和儿童死亡率，但同时医院的住院儿童确实享受到了一些私人家庭儿童无法获得的护理。
