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BENEVOLENT ESTABLISHMENTS. 



dered about the plains, to ask charity at the doors of the huts 

 and buildings which served as the temporary habitations of 

 those who had survived the ruins of their beloved country. 

 This calamitous event would have been attended by the most 

 fatal consequences to the establishment of orphan children,, 

 but for the prudent measures adopted by the" viceroy, one 

 of whose earliest precautions was to place in security the little 

 that still belonged to the hospital, whetlier resulting from the 

 remnants of the extinguished brotherhood, or from the arrears 

 belonging to the funds of the house. Several administrators, 

 sele6fed from among the distinguished class of the citizens, 

 were at the same time appointed to succeed those who had be- 

 longed to the religious community. In 1718, the hospital 

 found a new benefa6tor in the person of Don Antonio De Zo- 

 loaga, the archbishop of Lima, who, observing the extreme 

 poverty of the institution, among other donations, ordered the 

 sum of eight hundred and forty piastres to be annually taken 

 from his revenues, for the support of ten nurses. 



The establishment was once more in a flourishing condition, 

 when another earthquake, which occurred on the 28th of Oc- 

 tober 1746, renewed the disastrous scenes that had accom- 

 panied the preceding one of 1687. The same devastations 

 were produ6live of a similar desertion of the dwellings ; but 

 this catastrophe was not attended by equally fatal consequences 

 to the orphans. Their administrator, Don Joseph De Herrara, 

 made every possible effort to afford them succour, and wit- 

 nessed the re-establishment of the hospital, before he was 

 snatched off by death, to reap the fruits of his compassion and 

 christian charity. 



The viceroy, count Superunda, obtained, in 1755, a royal 



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