Note 7 — Letters from the Archbishop of Manila to the King

Hospital of La Misericordia, where slaves and Spanish women are treated. In another hospital, called that of La Misericordia,7 also inside the walls of Manila, sick slaves are treated for all ailments—both men and women, in separate quarters. There are generally from eighty to one hundred sick persons in it. It has one separate room where poor Spanish women are treated, which generally has from twelve to twenty women. That hospital is in charge of the Confraternity of La Misericordia [238] [“mercy”], which bears all the expenses and keeps the hospital very well supplied with medicine and delicacies. It is administered by religious of St. Francis.