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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Facilities > Residential Facilities > Orphanages
Non-Medical Public and Private Facilities > Residential Facilities > Orphanages

Preferred term

Orphanages  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Institutions for the housing and care of orphans, foundlings, and abandoned children. They have existed as such since the medieval period but the heading is applicable to such usage also in modern parlance.

Broader concept

Allowable Qualifier(s)

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-HTXFXJ4C-F

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