ll be kept, in which shall be set down the
alms given by charitable persons to the hospital, whether in money,
clothes, and food, or other things.
11. The food of the sick shall be received and placed under the head
of ordinary expense of the hospital; and at mealtimes, the physician
shall be present at the distribution of food to the sick, in order
to see that his orders are observed; and the steward likewise, if
not lawfully prevented.
12. _Item_: Those who are sick of contagious diseases shall be
treated separately, and their service of beds and clothes and their
food shall be kept separate from those of the other sick; and much
care shall be taken in this.
13. _Item_: A book shall be kept wherein to enter the income of the
hospital, whether from tributes and annual pensions, or from other
sources of income or profit possessed by the hospital. Likewise
there shall be a book for the entry of alms and legacies bequeathed
to the hospital by the dying, as well as those collected and sent
to it by charitable persons, in either money or fowls, or anything
else, so that the steward in whose care they shall be placed may have
them all credited in the said book, and so that there may be a full
account of everything. There shall also be another book in which to
enter the clothing, beds, ornaments, and other furniture acquired
by the hospital; and it shall be kept by the person in whose charge
they are. There shall be another book in which to enter the names of
the sick, with the day, month, and year of their entrance; and the
deaths and the departures, also with the date. Likewise there shall be
another book of the allowances, wages, and pay spent in the hospital,
both of its sick and of its officials, entering therein the tickets
of admission of the sick.
[_Endorsed_: "Rules of the Manila hospital."]
Expedition to Tuy
When we went upon this expedition to Tuy, the Indians surrendered of
their own free will, and no blood was shed, solely through the efforts
of two religious who accompanied Don Luys. Then they gave only their
tribute of recognition in beads and a trifle of adulterated gold. And
so that it might not appear that the tribute was to be collected
immediately, they were given one year's respite, within which the
Spaniards would return to collect it. They bound themselves to pay
it. In order not to break faith, we shall not return there until the
time limit has expired; and, even then, I shall see
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