Hospitals that printed their own numbers: New Spain and Cadiz, 1787-1794

Every January the gazette of Mexico City printed how many patients each hospital had taken in the year before, how many had left, how many had died and how many were still in bed, and once worked out the death rate itself. The returns cover a general hospital in the capital, the naval port hospital at Veracruz, the poorhouse, and a hospital in Cadiz. They record a good deal the government would have had no reason to advertise, including where the money for an Indian hospital came from.