sentences:  After the plague of 1656, the hospital was expanded and by 1669 the viceroy Pietro Antonio of Aragon, seeking to move much of the indigent handicapped individuals ("arcattoni") out of the city center, converted the hospital into a hospice for the poor.As such, "San Gennaro dei Poveri" was the first hospice for the poor in Naples, and remained the major such site until the 1750s, when the much more ambitious project of the Royal Hospice for the Poor was built.San Gennaro still functions as a hospital.