| Category | Institutional Archive |
|---|---|
| Country | Spain |
| Address | Águila, 10, 33003 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain |
| Telephone | 985225769 |
| Fax | 985214328 |
| URL | http://www.archivosdeasturias.info |
The records relating to leprosy at El Archivo Histórico de Asturias are in the collection of the Junta Provincial de Beneficencia Oviedo. They are institutional documents that refer to the so-called “malaterías”, a name that was assigned to the leprosy hospitals.
These records refer to the following hospitals:
Especial Series: Provincial Hospice
Reference Code. ES.33044.AHA/HP Dates: 1751-1965
Preceding Documents: 1568-1750
The documentation generated between 1568 and 1750 corresponds to the documents produced by the malaterías, leprosy hospitals, whose goods and rents were destined for the maintenance of the Hospice. Description level: Fund Extent: 487 books; 158 boxes
Institutions Generating the Documentation:
The malaterías were hospitals and social institutions devoted to the reception and accommodation of leprosy patients. Their historical origin is uncertain and the first documentary references are in the thirteenth century. They were managed by religious orders. Many malaterías and leprosy hospitals received the name of San Lázaro, and were financed and protected by the Crown itself, the nobleness, the local authorities, and the laity.
The goods and the rentals of the malaterías were passed to the State belongings by the Real Cédula the 14 of September of 1769 and those funds were applied to the maintenance of the Provincial social welfare institutions, legally approved in 1752. The Provincial Hospice integrated several casa-cuna, children asylums situated in the asturian territory to lodge orphan or abandoned children. Most of the casas cuna were founded around 1807 and were situated in Valdepares (El Franco), Santa Eulalia de Oscos, Cangas de Onís, y Cangas de Tineo.
The San Lázaro hospital (lazaret) was full of patients and its installations had to be widened. A new building was planned and then built and inaugurated the 7 of September 1754. Its facilities were amplified in 1770. The Real Hospice was closed in 1961 and its building was sold and renovated, into what is today the most famous hotel in Oviedo: the Reconquista Hotel.
Archivist Documentation:
After the closure of the Hospice in 1965, the records were deposited in the Archive of the Provincial Deputation, situated in the building of the Junta General del Principado. From 1986 onwards, the records from the Real Hospice and from the Deputation were integrated in the General Archive from the Administration of the Principado, that in 2001 were transferred to the Historical Archive in Asturias. The Hospice Archive includes all the documental funds from the old malaterías, and leprosy hospitals.
Description of the Collection:
In its major part, it contains a series of documents that go back to the XVIII century. There are various boxes with documents of the Direction (1717-1931), Register (1799-1965), Registers of the Juntas (1752-1831) and documents related with the patients admitted, treated and lodged in the hospice (1932-1965) and with the visits (1884-1903).
The Section devoted to the economic administration consists in rent books, books of budgets and goods of the malaterías from 1568 until 1909. The section consists of books about the admittance of patients, and the departure of patients, and books of forecasts (1814-1965). It also includes inventories of budgets and materials in the institution, books de payments and entry registers, rent books and documentation of the Casas-Cuna de Valdepares, Cangas de Onís, Cangas de Tineo and Santa Eulalia de Oscos (1807-1917).
Other series of interest are the exposit books (1752-1962), books of poor people (1754-1962), kept registers of mothers (1851-1962), books of payment for the nurses in concept of the lactation and registers over this activities (1837-1946), between others.
The funds also include books of the malaterías (leprosy hospitals) of Ardisana, Barayo, Cabruñana, Cañamal, Cecos, Colmillera, Corros de Candamo, Entrecaminos, Ferradal, Guardo, la Espina, la Lloraza, la Paranza, la Rebollada, la Silva, Linares, Llendelafaya, Mirallo, Moño, Padraira, Paniceres, Retuertas, Ruedes, Valdevenero, Vallobal and Villafría.
Organization : The documentation about the malaterías (leprosy asylums) are found in section 6 from the order of classification organic-functional of the Archive.
Documents Associated with the Archive of the Provincial Hospital:
Entry made December 18, 2006
| Name | The Archivist |
|---|---|
| Organization | Historical Archive in Asturias |
| Address | Águila, 10, 33003 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain |
| Telephone | 985225769 |
| Fax | 985214328 |