Hospicio de Jesús, María y José de Quito, 1785: a poorhouse and leprosarium paid for by a tax on sugar and wine

A house taken from the expelled Jesuits became Quito's poorhouse in 1785, funded by a bishop's pastoral appeal that raised over seven thousand pesos and then by earmarked levies on sugar, wine and cloth, a ceded municipal rent and a thousand pesos on each of two bishoprics. It was planned with wards for beggars, orphans and lepers, and its leprosarium opened with five patients. The king's order to put that ward outside the town was not obeyed.