Mexico: Junta Principal de Caridad

The items in the collection span the work of the Junta during the 1797/98 smallpox epidemic, comprising a circular announcing the setting up in late 1797 of local charitable societies to be co-ordinated by the Junta, and the Junta's concluding report of early 1798.

1797-1798

2 volumes manuscript, bound.

WMS/Amer.89 purchased 1927; WMS/Amer.45 purchased 1962.

The Junta Principal de Caridad was set up in the city of Mexico during the smallpox epidemic of 1797/98. Its role was to co-ordinate the work of local charitable societies that were organised in all the city's subdivisions.

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).

WMS/Amer.45 formed part of the Guerra Collection; WMS/Amer.89 formed part of the León Collection.