Circular setting up procedures during epidemic

[Begins:] La Junta principal de Caridad establecida para el socorro de tantos y tan miserables enfermos, victimas de las Viruelas, ha tomado varias providencias para su socorro [&c.]. Produced in Mexico. Dated 6 November 1797. Headed 'Pidiendo limosna á sugetos pudientes - y Comunidades', in another hand. Copy of a circular announcing the division of the City into sub-districts (manzanas) and the formation of district boards of charity (Sociedades parciales de Caridad), and calling for contributions to meet the growing need.

1797

1 l. 30 x 21.5 cm. Bound.

Purchased 1962.

At Wellcome Collection: the same text was despatched to recipients in printed form with the rúbricas of the 9 members of the Junta Principal, this being held in the Library (Collection: Request EPB American; Shelfmark: M.110); see also its catalogue description 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).

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 Guerra Collection.