The _Ecoles Chrétiennes_ are at the charge of the town. The sum appropriated to those establishments amounts annually to about 14,000 francs (560_l._). Admissions are granted by the town. The number of children instructed in reading, writing, and a little arithmetic, amounts to about 1,800 for the town. At the Lancasterian school, the instruction is on a more extended scale. Grammar, drawing and surveying are taught, in addition to what is taught at the _Ecoles Chrétiennes_. There are at present in these latter schools 300 boys and 150 girls in all. The department pays the expenses of these schools. The girls received in the private boarding schools, where they learn to read, to write, and to sew, amount to the number of about 600. This is entirely a private act of charity. The number of girls received by the Sisters of Charity amounts to about 900. There has also been established within the last year a model infant school, founded by private subscriptions, for the children of labourers and journeymen artisans. At present, however, it is so little known, that it is of very little importance. _Impotent through Age._ Bourdeaux is the only town of the department which possesses any establishments of this kind, viz., the Hospital of Incurables (_Hospice des Incurables_), and that of the old people (_Hospice des Vieillards_). These two establishments support 300 old people. This number falls very short of that which the population requires. The requisite qualifications for admission are, to have passed the age of 60, and to prove that the candidate has no means of subsistence. It may be added, that at Bourdeaux the number of old people who are candidates for admittance to these hospitals amounts to 300, and that on an average a vacancy occurs for each at the end of four years at the _Hospital des Incurables_, and two years at _Hospice des Vieillards_, and that all these claimants find either in their families, the _Secours à Domicile_, or private charity, means of subsistence. _Sick._ The department possesses, for the reception of the sick, a small hospital at Bazas; one at St. Macaire, and one at La Réole; a more extensive one at Blaye and Libourne, and the great hospital at Bourdeaux. The great hospital of Bourdeaux contains always from 600 to 650 sick. The daily admittances average 30; the discharges, 28, and the deaths two. No distinction is made as to country, &c. either in admittance, treatment, or discharge.