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nurses, each of whom receives a salary of six piastres per 

 month. Within the estabhshment itself there are upwards of 

 twenty wet-nurses, and as many dry-nurses, including several 

 grown up female orphans, who respe6lively attend to the ne- 

 cessities of the unfortunate infants. There are thirty-three 

 Spanish youths belonging to the foundation, all of whom are 

 taught to read, write, &c. to be afterwards brought up to 

 useful professions, according to the disposition of each of 

 them. There are likewise five foundlings of colour destined 

 for the service of the house. 



The following is a concise account of the monastery and 

 hospital of charity established at Lima. 



During the viceroyalty of the marquis of Canete, in the 

 year 1559, an epidemical disease broke out in that capital, 

 and made a dreadful havoc among the inhabitants, as well as 

 in the surrounding territory. Amid this general afflidlion, 

 christian charity displayed all the ardor of which it is suscep- 

 tible. Among those whose zeal was most conspicuous in af- 

 fording relief to the sufferers, was friar Ambrosio De Guerra, 

 whose exhortations, and, still more, whose example, stimu- 

 lated Don Alonzo De Paredes, a distinguished Castillian, to 

 ere6t a monastery under the denomination of the fellowship 

 of compassion, the principal institute of which was to af- 

 ford relief, in their own houses, to the unfortunate sick 

 who might otherwise perish destitute of every aid. The 

 archbishop, Don Geronimo Loaysa, approved of the es- 

 tablishment of this pious society, and united with it another 



monastery 



