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| Juan de Castañedo's report of his
accounts with the Hospital San Lazaro for the year 1797. That hospital, another of the benefactions of Don
Andrés Almonester y Roxas, served the victims of leprosy in New Orleans. Located well outside the
city limits, probably in the present-day Gentilly section, the main purpose of the hospital appears to have
been to isolate patients from the rest of the city. There is no evidence that any attempt was made to actually
provide them with medical treatments for their disease. | [Miscellaneous French and Spanish Documents, #247]
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