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isolation and continual choral practice, more than if they were 

 Barefoot Nuns. It was originally established a league out from the 

 city on the road leading to Callao, with the shield and arms of 

 Nuestra Seiiora del Carmen ; then they moved into the city, where 

 there is also another Carmelite convent next to Santa Clara and 

 very popular with the people. 



1272. The Royal Hospital of San Andres was established by the 

 piety of the Marques de Canete, old Don Hurtado de Mendoza. It 

 can vie with the best in the world, for it receives without limit or 

 personal favor those ill with any disease, distributing them in dif- 

 ferent wards. Its wards, emplacement, and ofifices seem like a town. 

 It has an insane asylum at one side, and some act as servants, though 

 wearing tertiary habits. It has a large number of men and women 

 slaves for the service of the poor. Since the time of devout Marques 

 de Salinas, Don Luis de Velasco, it has been better conducted, for 

 it was observed that the administrators appointed by the government 

 did not exercise the care and devotion which the hospital required. 

 Accordingly with the aid of the sanctity of that great man, as saintly 

 as wise, Padre Juan Sebastian of the Company of Jesus, there was 

 established a Confraternity of noble and wealthy persons in the city, 

 who elect their Superintendent (Mayordomo) and eight deputies 

 each year ; two are in attendance each week in turn and experience 

 has shown how brilliant this Confraternity's administration has been 

 in the addition of new wards ; one Superintendent after another, in 

 pious emulation, has tried to leave a memorial in improvements of 

 wards, offices, infirmary, and wardrobe, which latter has to provide for 

 over 500 beds, and in comfort for the invalids, which is such that 

 any well-to-do person can be taken care of there in no less luxury 

 than in his own home ; it is a fact that a remedy has been compounded 

 there costing over 200 reals, and it was handed out on the doctor's 

 prescription, although it cost more than the care of many invalids 

 would take. On the spiritual side they have chaplains and confessors, 

 who live in the hospital itself, and if the Superintendent wishes to 

 reside in it, he has a very respectable apartment and quarters there. 



Chapter XXV 



Continuing the Description of the Splendid Hospitals of This 

 City ; and of Its Famous University. 



1273. The famous Hospital of Santa Ana was founded by that 

 most devout churchman, Don Jeronimo de Loaysa, first Archbishop 

 of Peru, for the care of the Indians. It has an income of over 30,000 



