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plus a ninth part and a half of the tithes of this holy church ear- 

 marked to it each year ; and with the daily contributions, it has come 

 to have an income of over 16,000 pesos. 



There is only one ward (enfermeria) in this hospital, in the shape 

 of the badge of San Juan de Dios (tao), and in the transept it 

 forms there is an altar where Mass is said ; and in the main ward, 

 in the right wing of this tao, there are 14 beds for Spanish patients ; 

 in the left wing, 19 for Indians ; and in the center, 16 beds for 

 mestizos, Indians, mulattoes, and Negro slaves, for whose care their 

 masters give contributions to this hospital ; and at the end of this 

 main section, there are 6 beds in alcoves, where they apply mercury 

 ointment to victims of tumors (syphilis), for all kinds of poor patients 

 are treated in this hospital. 



1709. The hospital has a Manager (Administrador) who is like- 

 wise Superintendent (Mayordomo), who collects and distributes its 

 income ; he is nominated by the Archbishop of this city and the 

 President confirms him in his title, by virtue of royal patronage. 

 This Manager gets an annual salary of 400 assay pesos, his living 

 apartment in this hospital and food for himself, one servant, and 

 a mule. 



There is a doctor [and surgeon] with a salary of 500 assay pesos, 

 a chaplain who is the curate of this hospital, with living quarters 

 in it and a salary of 600 assay pesos ; the surgeon gets 350 assay 

 pesos ; the barber and the man-nurse, each 250 8-real pesos ; it has 

 some Yanacona Indians who care for the patients and attend to all 

 their needs. The holy Metropolitan Church of this city has an 

 excellent choir, with singers, seises (dancing choirboys), and players 

 on reed and all other musical instruments. The Bishop received, in 

 the year 1610 when this description was drawn up by Don Jeronimo 

 Maldonado de Buendia, from his share of the tithes accruing to him, 

 20.000 assay pesos and 14,000 from the funeral 25 percent ; the 

 revenues have gone up greatly, for since that time many vineyards 

 have been planted in the valleys of its district, notably in those of 

 Pilaya and Pispaya, so that the tithes have much increased. 



Chapter XXV 



Continuing the Description of the Chief Features of This City's 

 District, and of the College. 



1710. The Seminary and College in this city gets an income of 

 3 percent on the salary of every Indian missionary chaplainship 

 (dotrina) in the whole Archbishopric, and every post of chaplain, 



