CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3] — Page 335

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Interrogatory

M.XII.

323

The laws of Macro not providing

the secension of leḥrous individuals private

to the rescue

for

Munificence

has

Come

given subsistence to

and

A

kind of infirmary

in the style of the lazar houses of the

European Middle

age.

A Santa Casa del

Misericordia is the

name

of

an institution

where

years.

for lepers, existing upwards of

private funds

Qoo

in old timed provided for the

bousing, Clothing for of

an unlimited

number of leprous poor. Nowadays however the interest of the Capital docs not pay for

more than 22 inmates, each of whom receives

his provisions

dollars

and

each

spe

his clothing, besides 12

month, apart from

these

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