is because the nuns, the catholic church, saw these babies — realised they could make money out of them. yes, that is a fact. well, where‘s the evidence? the evidence is the fact that the mortality rates plummeted after the banished babies trade started. and it is literally — you can see the correlation between them. from the time the banished babies trade started, in ‘45, that is when the mortality rate started to fall. but it also coincides with a time when rationing is ended, when vaccinations began, and when antibiotics began. there‘s no question that, whatever way you dress it up, and you can look into all these fact, figures and aspects of it, but the fact of the matter is there is no excuse for children dying at the rate of four out of every five babies dying in bessborough in 19115. that is not to do with antibiotics. that is to do with lack of care. it is a point that has been made by david quinn, who writes in the irish catholic,