Sostenimiento de Los mendigos en la provincia de Bogotá

Abstract

The image contains a news item about the increase in the population of people identified as beggars in the province of Bogota, therefore it is mentioned that the amount of this population exceeds the capacity of maintenance by the Government and requests wealthy people to fill the deficit of 3,056 pesos a year that the house of refuge has in order to support the 200 beggars who were collected from the streets of Bogota in the past days. In addition, the expenses that the house of refuge must pay are mentioned, such as the salary for a chaplain, a butler, a butleress, a concierge, a doorkeeper, a porter, table, kitchen and dormitory supplies, as well as the services that are available and the deficit necessary to cover the aforementioned to finish with the phrase: An effort of the good hearts, and we will have achieved a holy end.

News published in La Opinión, No.594, November 23rd-1864.