Mexico: Casa de Maternidad

Inventory, accounts, official correspondence and public documents, miscellaneous drafts, medical statistics and a history, relating to the foundation and administration of the Casa de Maternidad. Mexico.

1867-1909

26 documents: 93 ll. (some bl.). 43.5 x 33 cm. (max.). all unbound.

Purchased 1927.

The Casa de Maternidad (officially also the Hospital de Maternidad e Infancia) was founded by the Emperor Maximilian of Hapsburg [1832-67] under the patronage of the Empress Charlotte on 7 June 1865 and inaugurated on 7 June 1866. The documents marked * were printed by León (1910) at pp. 305-360, according to which a similar institution had been set up under Benito Juárez c. 1862. The history of the Hospital (no. 26 below) was drafted by Ramón F. Pacheco Rodríguez [1837-1915]. Director 1867-70.

At Wellcome Collection: see also WMS/Amer.143.

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

Formerly part of the León Collection.