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 124 BOSTON penses $238,458. These figures include the sta- tistics of the McLean asylum for the insane at Somerville, which is a branch of this institu- tion. In 1871 more than 1,500 patients were received in the hospital, about two thirds free of charge, and nearly 10,000 out patients were treated. The consumptives' home is a spacious mansion surrounded with ample grounds, at the junction of Warren street and Blue Hill avenue, Dorchester. The institution is of recent origin. It was founded by Dr. Charles Cullis, and is supported by voluntary contri- butions, which in 1871 amounted to $55,000. During that year 185 patients were cared for at the home, and 757 have been received since its opening. The Boston farm school, for the relief and instruction of poor boys destitute of proper control, is on Thompson's island, and has accommodation for about 300 boys. Among the other benevolent institutions that are doing much good are the Baldwin home for little wanderers, the home for aged indigent females, and two inebriate asylums, the Washingtonian home and the Greenwood institute. The pub- lic charitable institutions are under the care of a board of directors elected by the city council ; they have charge of the house of industry and reformation and the almshouse, situated on Deer island, and the house of correction and lunatic hospital, at South Boston. The whole number of inmates in the first three institu- tions, April 30, 1871, was '1,062, of whom 398 were females ; total expenditures for the year, $111,212; income, $25,943. There were 409 inmates of the house of correction and 233 of the lunatic hospital ; expenditures of the for- mer for the year, $82,001; income, $75,599; expenditures of the latter, $64,441 ; income, $5,676. Galloupe's island is used as a quaran- tine station and for a smallpox hospital. The schools of Boston have a high reputation. Ac- cording to the report of the superintendent for the year ending Aug. 31, 1871, the number of persons in the city of school age (from 5 to 15) was 45,970, of whom 38,220 were attending school. The average number belonging to the day schools was 36,174, with an average daily attendance of 33,464 ; and there were 1,666 in the evening schools, with an average attend- ance of 1,037. There were 5 high, 37 gram- mar, and 327 primary schools, 11 evening schools, a school for deaf mutes, a kindergarten school, and 2 schools for licensed minors (boys licensed to sell papers and serve as bootblacks on the streets), making a total of 384 schools. The whole number of teachers was 990, of whom 850 were females. The high schools are the Latin school for boys, the English high school for boys, the girls' high and normal school, and the Highland and Dorchester high schools for boys and girls. The first named is well known as a preparatory school to Harvard university; its object is "to give thorough general culture to boys intending to pursue the higher branches of learning, or preparing for professional life." Much time is devoted to the study of the languages, ancient and modern. There is also an evening high school. Music and drawing are taught in all grades of the public schools. The total expenditure for school purposes during the year was $1,575,- 279, of which $1,131,599 was for current ex- penses and $443,679 for school houses and lots. The institute of technology was founded in 1861, and is " devoted to the practical arts and sciences." It is in Boylston, between Berke- ley and Clarendon streets. The building, an elegant structure of pressed brick with free- stone trimmings, is 150 ft. long, 100 ft. wide, and 85 ft. high. The institute receives one third of the grant made by congress to the state for the establishment of a college of agri- culture and the mechanic arts. Its plan of organization includes a society of arts, a museum of arts, and a school of industrial science and art. In 1871 there were 264 students, from 13 states, and 13 instructors. Boston college is a Jesuit institution, with 10 instructors and 140 pupils, organized in 1863. The Boston university was founded in 1809 by the munificence of Isaac Rich, who bequeathed for that purpose the bulk of his estate, amount- ing to nearly $2,000,000. The plan of the in- stitution comprehends a general department of schools, which supposes on the part of thfc student a previous collegiate training, and a department of colleges. The former will em- brace schools of theology, law, medicine, and universal science; and the latter, colleges of arts, natural science, philosophy and literature, agriculture, mining and engineering, navigation and commerce, pharmacy, dentistry, music, architecture, and painting and sculpture. The school of theology, the school of law, and the college of music are already in operation. The first named, the largest theological school in New England, was formerly the Boston theo- logical seminary (Methodist Episcopal), organ- ized in 1847. In 1872 it had 14 instructors, 94 students, and a library of 4,000 volumes. The school of law was opened in October, 1872, with 50 students. The college of music is in- tended to afford instruction to pupils advanced in the study and practice of music. Boston has numerous music schools, the chief of which, besides the one already mentioned, are the New England conservatory of music, in Music hall, the Boston conservatory of music in Tremont street, opposite the Common, and the national college of music in Tremont Temple, organized in 1872. The medical school of Harvard uni- versity is situated in North Grove street. It was established in 1783, and in 1871 had 25 instructors, 301 students, and a library of 2,000 volumes. The dental school of Harvard uni- versity, with 13 instructors and 27 students, is also situated in Boston. The New England female medical college, established in 1848, in 1871 had 5 instructors and 26 pupils. The Massachusetts college of pharmacy was estab- lished in Boston in 1867. In educational and literary institutions Boston is not surpassed by