Between 1925 and 1937, 204 children died at the Home — an average of 17 per year. 17 deaths out of 200 children equals a mortality rate of8.5%. It is interesting to compare that with the rest of the country at the time. In 1933, the infant mortality rate in Dublin was 83 per thousand (ie. a mortality rate of 8.3%), in Cork it was 89 per thousand (8.9%), in Waterford it was 102 per thousand (10.2%) and in Limerick it was 132 per thousand (13.2%). (Source: Irish Press, 12th April, 1935).
These are very sad statistics indeed, but not surprising if you know the history of infant and child mortality in the era before anitbiotics (which would mean for the first 25+ years of the TGuam Children' Home existence.) Institutionalized populations, like orphanages, homeless shelters and the like, could have whole wards wiped out by influenza, TB, and gastroenteritis.
Also the historian Liam Logan (@limerick1914) who has done so much work in digging up the archives and sharing them, has discovered that the home never once left the hands of the County Council. In 1951, 10 years before it shut, the sisters were begging the board for a grant, saying that they were too ashamed to show councils part of the building which desperately needed renovations, the children were sleeping in attics in terrible conditions and the building were considered a fire risk. In a meeting in 1949, Senator Martin Quinn were told that the children were suffering as result of the condition of the building, to which he replied “I do not like these statements which receive such publicity”.
"First the verdict, then the evidence": motto, in this case, of Salon, Washington Post, New York Times, and yes, Fox News. And some others as well. They'll show up.
Those who want to believe nuns are in the business of murdering children will simply declare this “fake but accurate” and insist it’s genuine evidence of Catholic evil.
The lamestream media - and all the usual suspects in this foul place - are just plain old Catholic-hating, God-hating enemies of God.
We should pray for them that they will not suffer the eternal fate they have earned for themselves.