Industrial Exchange, for assisting women in need to support themselves;
Johns Hopkins hospital, noted for the excellence of its equipment
especially for heating and ventilating; Saint Joseph's general hospital;
hospital for the women of Maryland of Baltimore city; nursery and child's
hospital; Baltimore eye, ear and throat charity hospital; Maryland hospital
for the insane; the Sheppard asylum, intended especially for the cure of
the insane; the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt hospital; the Baltimore orphan
asylum; Saint Vincent's infant asylum; the Thomas Wilson sanatorium for
children, intended for children under three years of age, who are suffering
from disease, during the warm summer months; the Free Summer Excursion
Society, for affording a change of air to the indigent sick; home for the
incurables; homes for the aged; homes for friendless children; institutions
for the blind; and institutions for the deaf and dumb.

Water for the city taken from Jones's Falls and Gunpowder river a few miles
N. of the city limits, is brought through tunnels, and is stored in eight
reservoirs having an aggregate capacity of 2275 million gallons. The whole
system is owned by the municipality and can furnish about 300 million
gallons daily. After the fire $10,000,000 was appropriated for a new sewage
system (begun 1906). In 1900 the Maryland legislature empowered the city to
borrow $1,350,000 to establish a municipal lighting plant, but in 1909
private concerns still supplied the streets with light.

_Commerce_.--The harbour, which consists of three parts, is excellent. Its
entrance at Fort McHenry is a channel 600 ft. wide, with a minimum draft
(1907) of 31 ft. of water. The depth is continued with an increased width
for a mile and a quarter to near Fells' Point, where the width is
contracted to one-fourth of a mile with a depth of 16 ft. Above this
entrance it widens into an ellipse a mile long, half a mile broad and 15
ft. deep. The third or inner harbour has a depth of 14 ft. and penetrates
far into the city. Vessels of the largest class can lie at the Locust Point
wharves and Canton, and vessels of 4000 tons can use the inner harbour W.
of the mouth of Jones's Falls. By 1905 $5,000,000 had been appropriated
since the great fire for new docks. In 1908 the city ranked fourth among
the Atlantic ports of the United States in the amount of its exports
($82,113,496), and fourth in the amount of its imports ($23,722,045).

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