thout expense to their
friends.

The Child's Hospital, Lexington avenue and Fiftieth street, embraces four
distinct charities: A Foundling Asylum, a Nursery for the children of
laboring women, a Child's Hospital, and a Lying-in Asylum. The buildings
are very extensive. The annual Charity Ball is given in behalf of this
institution.

The Woman's Hospital of the State of New York, Fourth avenue and Fiftieth
street, is a handsome building, and the only institution of its kind in
the country. It owes its existence to the exertions of Dr. J. Marion
Sims, who is, together with Dr. Emmett, still in charge of it. It is
devoted exclusively to the treatment of female diseases. It is attended
by physicians from all parts of the country, who come to receive clinical
instruction in this branch of their profession.

The other prominent hospitals are, Dr. Knight's Institution for the
Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled; the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary;
the House of Rest for Consumptives; the New York Infirmary for Women and
Children; the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women; the
Hahneman Hospital; the Stranger's Hospital (a private charity); the New
York Ophthalmic Hospital; the New York Aural Institute; and the Manhattan
Eye and Ear Hospital.

[Picture: INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND.]

Among the asylums are the Institution for the Blind, on Ninth avenue and
Thirty-fourth street; the New York Institution for the Instruction of the
Deaf and Dumb, on Washington Heights, overlooking the Hudson; the
Institution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes, Broadway, near
Forty-fifth street; the New York Orphan Asylum, Seventy-third street,
west of Broadway; the Colored Orphan Asylum, One-hundred-and-tenth street
and Tenth avenue; the Orphan Home and Asylum of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, Forty-ninth street and Lexington avenue; the Sheltering Arms, an
Episcopal institution for the Protection and Care of Orphans and half
Orphans, especially those whose bodily infirmities would exclude them
from other institutions; three Roman Catholic Orphan Asylums, one at the
corner of Mott and Prince streets, one on Fifth avenue (for boys), on the
block above the new Cathedral, and one in Madison avenue (for girls),
immediately in the rear of that just mentioned; the New York Asylum for
Lying-in Women, 83 Marion street; the Society for the Relief of Half
Orphans and Destitute Children, 67 West Tenth street; the Le