According to the list, the last death was five years before his book.
I hadn’t noticed that. The list contains those children who were recorded as having died there, but had no record of burial. The home continued in operation for five more years after the book was published.
Whatever was behind these unfortunate children apparently not receiving a proper Christian burial ended 10 years before the home closed, which would be 1951? The former septic tank in question ceased being used as such in 1938.
I went and checked the list and don’t see that it ended five years before publication of Dr. Halliday’s book?