Report on epidemic

Extracto de las Providencias dictadas por la Junta principal de Caridad, de que fue Presidente El ... Sr. Dr. D. Alonso Nuñez de Haro y Peralta .... Coleccion de los Oficios .... Estados que manifiestan sus piadosos efectos en la Epidemia de Viruelas que huvo en la Ciudad de Mexico el año de 1797. Produced in Mexico. Signed, with rubríca, by the Secretary to the Junta Principal, Luis Gonzaga de Ibarrola, also Escribano mayor to the Real Tribunal de Consulado of Mexico and its successor from at least 1790 to at least 1821. This concluding report of the Secretary, dated 28 April 1798, summarises the action undertaken to ameliorate the effects of the great smallpox epidemic of New Spain 1797-98, from the confidential Viceregal circular of 28 February 1797 [see M.150] to the financial report by the Treasurer, Antonio Basoco [used by Cooper (1965), pp. 149-152], and the apportioned return of the remaining relief money to the original contributors.

1798

9 ll. 30 x 20 cm. Contemporary full calf.

Purchased 1927.

At Wellcome Collection: see the 'Resumen general' issued by the same Junta Principal (Collection: Request EPB American; Shelfmark: M.122) whose figures for the total number of those infected and the sums disbursed agree with the figures in this manuscript, and the printed circular letter 'Considerando lo Junta Principal de Caridad...' (Collection: Request EPB American; Shelfmark: M.97), which is considered a more accurate summary. The Viceroy's regulations issued as the epidemic approached Mexico City ('A esfuerzos de mis estrechas...') are also held in the Library (Collection: Request EPB American; Shelfmark: M.150 and 151). See also the catalogue descriptions for all these items 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.