Hospicio y Hospital Real de Huérfanos, Expósitos y Desamparados of Oviedo, 1752

A royal poorhouse for orphans, foundlings and the destitute begun at Oviedo in 1752, whose printed ordinances carry a first-person argument for it by the minister who promoted it. The case is demographic rather than devotional — he estimates that ninety of every hundred foundlings die, and counts the survivors as future subjects and marriages — and the same pages record that those who did not enter voluntarily after the public proclamation "serian llevados con apremio".