The institution’s 1883 history reports 46 deaths among its children over the preceding fifty years. It supplies no names in this passage and should not be treated as a complete individual death register.
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Source: H. M. Packard (author); Press of O. A. Dorman, New Haven (printer); Printed page 17; PDF page 19 of 35; zero-based PDF index 18
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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven Orphan Asylum / Children’s Center of Hamden, SGC-NH-006, NH-004, “Fifty-year mortality statement.” Source: H. M. Packard (author); Press of O. A. Dorman, New Haven (printer); Printed page 17; PDF page 19 of 35; zero-based PDF index 18. https://archive.org/details/1883HistoricalSketchOfTheNewHavenConnecticutOrphanAsylumCT/page/n18/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.