Hospicio de Pobres de México, 1774: a poorhouse built by one man and paid for by a state lottery

A cathedral dignitary built a poorhouse in Mexico City at his own expense for people too old or too ill to work; it was approved in 1765 and opened in March 1774, and from 1783 the crown paid it a thousand pesos a month out of the royal lottery, raising the lottery's own deduction from fourteen to sixteen per cent to do it. The bando that opened it also ordered every beggar into it within eight days and set watchmen in the districts to collect those who stayed out.