OSPEDALIERI DI SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO (FATEDENEFRATELLI) - IL COMPLESSO DEGLI OSPEDALI DELL'ISOLA TIBERINA E LA SEDE PRINCIPALE DELL'ORDINE

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

### HOSPITALLERS OF ST JOHN OF GOD (BROTHERS OF CHARITY) – The complex of hospitals on Tiber Island and the Order’s principal seat – Rome.

Hospitals (ospedali) fall under this category. University medical clinics also fall under this category; however, these are governed by special provisions contained in the Consolidated Text of 21 August 1933, no. 1592, art. 49, and the General University Regulations of 6 April 1924, no. 674, art. 132. The characteristic element of these medico-university institutions is given more by their scientific and educational purpose than by their welfare aim.

Psychiatric hospitals, or asylums, which have the function of admitting and treating the mentally ill, present particular characteristics. They differ from ordinary hospitals in that they combine the function of public safety with that of care: the mentally ill are not only admitted and treated but also prevented from harming themselves and others.

Asylums may be distinguished into public and private. Public asylums are mostly administered by the provinces. The discipline of asylums, contained in the Law of 14 February 1904, no. 56, and in the related Implementing Regulation of 16 August 1909, no. 615, is uniformly applied to all asylums, both public and private.

As regards the action of the Church in promoting welfare institutions, V. SOCIAL ASSISTANCE; CHARITY. See also INCURABLES, Hospitals of the; LAZZARETTI; LEPROSY AND LEPROSARIA.

BIBL.: G. Molinari, L'azione santi. soc., Milan 1927; G. Tropeano, La med. soc., Naples 1933; F. Maestroni, L'asta. pubblica, Brescia 1934; A. Lo Monaco Aprile, Opere assistenziali (Legislazione sulle), in Nuovo Digesto it., IX, pp. 89-98; A. Labranca, Sanità Pubblica, ibid., XI, pp. 1044-52; G. Zanbini, Corso di Diritto amministrat., V, Milan 1950, p. 59; S. Francesco Ercolani.

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### HOSPITALLERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS AND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

An institute founded by Fr. Benito Menni (v.) to provide care for poor mentally ill women. A few years later, it also began to admit defective, rachitic, or poor young girls and children.

The institute’s life began in 1880; on 31 May 1881, under the authority and with the approval of the Archbishop of Toledo, the first house was inaugurated in Ciempozuelos, a locality later placed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Madrid. Final approval was granted on 29 November 1901 for the institute and on 16 March for its Constitutions, which, adapted to the Code, were again approved on 22 March 1923. The sisters follow the Rule of St Augustine. The generalate is in Ciempozuelos, seat of the institute. In 1948, there were 1,147 sisters, 101 novices, distributed across 31 houses.

BIBL.: Arch. della S. Congr. dei Religiosi, M. 54.

A. Agostino Pugliese