Nuñez de Haro y Peralta, Alonso (1729-1800)

[Begins:] Mui S[eño]r mio: Para poder dar Completa Satisfaczion á una R[ea]l Zedula en orden al Establezimiento ... de la Casa Cuna de Expositos [&c.]. [Followed by:] Informe del Il[ustrisi]mo S[eño]r Arzo[bis]po sobre la casa de niños expósitos. Mexico. 2 documents: the first, a copy of a letter from Antonio María Bucareli y Ursúa [Viceroy, 1771-79] dated 20 March 1777; the second signed, with rúbrica, and dated 17 April 1777. A Viceregal request for information on the foundation, siting, funding, and progress of the Casa de Niños Expósitos, followed by a full administrative report by Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta [Archbishop of Mexico 1772-1800, Viceroy 1787], who continued support to the Casa founded by his predecessor Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butrón [Archbishop 1766-72] in 1767 [see Flores (1886-88), 2, pp. 250-252]. The Constitution of the Casa had been approved by Real Cédula in 1774.

1777

1 l.; 1 l., ff. 8, 1 l. 30.5 x 21 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1927.

Among his many other activities Alonso Nuñez de Haro y Peralta encouraged post-mortem caesarean section from 1772, and organised relief facilities to meet the major smallpox epidemics of 1779-80 and 1797-98 in the City of Mexico.

At Wellcome Collection: see the printed regulations of the Casa de Niños Expósitos ('Constituciones, que para el mejor govierno...') (Collection: Request EPB American; Shelfmark: M.101) and 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 León Collection.