4th summary

According to the author, he mentioned that there was the “tour” (Fuchs, 1984, p21) that people can leave babies anonymously in Paris in 1811. Fuchs explained that tours were “wooden cylindrical concave boxes, approximately 55cm in diameter which were in a window like aperture in the wall of the hospice and served as cradle-turntables” (Fuchs, 1984, p21- 22) The cradle-turntables, Fuchs mentioned, were faced half the street and half inside of the hospice so people put their babies and turned the table half so that their babies went in the hospice. Then, “a bell sounded a bell to alert the nun on the in side that a baby had been deposited” as Fuchs mentioned (Fuchs, 1984, p22). Surprisingly, Fuchs indicated that the hospice “almost always knew the mother’s name, occupation, and address”(Fuchs, 1984, p31) thorough the Maison d’ Accouchement which is the place to give a birth, however; they kept secret of the mother’s information. The tour wasn’t open until 1827 because of the controversy between that tour was “making abandonment easier in order to prevent abortion and infanticide and making in more difficult in order to prevent immoral behavior.”(Fuchs, 1984, p22) It was because the tour was “the physical instrument” (Fuchs, 1984, p22) of anonymity. From 1811, Fuchs said that state law tried to be stipulated to protect abandoned children, but it didn’t work well. Fuchs stated that abandoned children were “potentially deviant”(Fuchs, 1984, p33) to bring other people’s state up.