baby-farmer

plural baby-farmers

1. alternativeAlternative form of baby farmer.

   Can't send it to the workhouse, you know, or a baby-farm, or a baby-farmer, like that woman.

   1883, All the Year Round - Volume 32; Volume 52, page 413

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   Proudly conscious of her peculiar abilities, the baby-farmer made reply, "Twenty-one deaths out of a possible twenty-three in the past six months."

   1884, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 26, page 154

   When the baby-farmer went to register the infant's death, the registrar, learning that it was illegitimate, and thinking that some of the statements made regarding it were suspicious, very properly insisted on the attendance of the mother before he would grant the certificate of registration.

   1884 September 1, “Baby-farming Disclosures in the Potteries”, in Midland Medical Miscellany and Provincial Medical Journal, volume 3, number 33, page 278