Hospitals for Indians in the colonial Andes (1548-1666)

The Peruvian viceroyalty built hospitals reserved for indigenous people from 1548, and paid for them with a levy on indigenous tribute, the tomin de hospital - so the charity came from the pockets of the poor it was for. An inspection in 1619 found hospitals in 74 of 152 places visited and 63 of those 74 deserted. The people they were built for called them the house of the dead, and the version that worked was the one indigenous authorities ran themselves.