All the most important trade-houses are in Montevideo, the largest and finest hotels; there are three theatres, fifteen churches and nine chapels, three cemeteries and three markets, etc. During the bathing season a great many foreigners come to Montevideo, owing to its fine shore and beautiful bathing establishments, like the one called Los Pocitos, where exists a beautiful and elegant building for the foreigners, and those called Romirez and Capurro. * * * * * The following table gives an idea of the immense yearly consumption of meat in Montevideo: ======+=============+============+=============+ | OXEN, COWS. | SHEEP. | TOTAL. | YEARS.| ---- | ---- | ---- | | Kilogs. | Kilogs. | Kilogs. | ------+-------------+------------+------------ + 1874 | 15,918,875 | 1,373,721 | 17,292,596 | 1875 | 15,379,042 | 1,166,721 | 16,545,763 | 1876 | 14,801,696 | 1,088,199 | 15,889,895 | 1877 | 14,578,711 | 1,009,309 | 15,588,020 | 1878 | 15,208,543 | 1,378,114 | 16,586,657 | 1879 | 13,468,455 | 1,394,751 | 14,863,206 | 1880 | 14,019,236 | 1,420,641 | 15,439,377 | 1881 | 14,228,375 | 1,472,598 | 15,700,973 | 1882 | 15,297,093 | 1,408,497 | 16,705,590 | 1883 | 16,100,322 | 1,448,126 | 17,548,448 | 1884 | 16,380,623 | 1,450,679 | 17,831,302 | 1885 | 19,293,435 | 1,426,345 | 20,719,780 | 1886 | 17,911,894 | 1,738,305 | 19,650,199 | 1887 | 18,027,814 | 1,272,314 | 19,300,128 | 1888 | 20,499,325 | 1,555,743 | 22,055,068 | 1889 | 24,681,622 | 1,733,487 | 26,415,109 | 1890 | 24,724,287 | 1,021,568 | 25,745,855 | 1891 | 25,087,020 | 847,435 | 25,934,455 | ======+=============+============+=============+ Public Beneficence. There are in the Republic many beneficent establishments, hospitals, charity and mutual assistance societies, that do important services to all who need them without any distinction of nationality. In the capital there are, under the care of the State and of the National Charity and Beneficence Commission, the Charity Hospital, the Alms House, the Insane Asylum, the Orphan Hospital, the Maternal Asylum and also a small-pox Lazaretto. There exist also, under the care of private beneficence, the English Hospital, the Italian Hospital, and soon there will be a Spanish Hospital. For a long time there have been many Ladies' Beneficence Societies, and many Mutual Assistance Societies: La Junta Central Espanola de Beneficencia, La Fraternidad, Societa Italiana, Circolo Napolitano, Societe Francaise de Seccours Mutuels. The number of the members of all the societies is more or less 25,000.