# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ9vp63oyOQ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67082645-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/e2ad818a64.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-24T10:11:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

They were the children nobody wanted. Nearly 200 never came back.

In 1849 Bartholomew Drouet was paid by the head for London’s pauper children — so he crammed 1,400 into a “school” at Tooting. When cholera came, 180 died. The jury said manslaughter; the judge directed an acquittal, and Drouet walked free.

#ForgottenHistory #BritishHistory #SocialHistory

## Stats

- **Views:** 996
- **Likes:** 58
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- **Comments:** 6

## Tags

socialhistory, forgottenhistory, britishhistory

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