Archivo Regional de la Comunidad de Madrid [Regional Archive of the Community of Madrid] holds files relating to the city and province of Madrid. The documents that relate to leprosy and to leprosy hospitals are:

Signature: 4350 / 3; Description: Instruction about the Acceptance of Leprosy Patients in Fontilles Leprosy Asylum; (Dates: 1935-1937)

Signature: 4354 /21; Description: Instruction Resolving Bills of People Staying in the Leprosy Asylum of Fontilles, Alicante. Contains accounts. (Dates:1936-1937)

Signature: 4361 /24; Description: Arrangements for the Removal of Sick People who Suffer Leprosy to Fontilles. (Dates:1937)

Signature: 4381 /21; Description: Records of Payment of the People to the Leprosy Asylum of Fontilles. (Dates:1939)

Signature: 4607 / 2; Description: Budget for Patients sent by the “Colegio Nacional de Ciegos” (National School of the Blind) and the Leprosy Asylum of Fontilles. (Dates: 1940-1941)

The documents named above belong to the Fondo de la Diputación Provincial [Fund of the Provincial Deputation] Section Beneficencia. Moreover, supplementary records could exist that are pertinent to leprosy among the funds of the health care institutions that are held in this archive. Among others, the following should be reviewed: Hospital Provincial [Provincial Hospital]: Books of deaths, books containing the admission of patients. - Junta Provincial de Beneficencia [Provincial Health Board]: Books of records. - Juntas de Hospitales [Hospitals Boards]: Records of Sessions, Agreements... Hospital General y de la Pasion [General and Passion Hospital]: Agreements, lists of patients…

Entry made September 7, 2006