The foundling house of Mexico City, 1774: a rulebook that describes the blanket a child arrived in

Mexico City's Casa de Niños Expósitos was given printed constitutions in 1774, approved by the king and published the next year. They order the chaplain to write down the day a child was left, the clothes it came wrapped in with their colours, any mark on its body and any paper found with it, copied word for word; they fix what wet nurses were paid and how the children were inspected; and they keep the house responsible for a child until it could earn a living.