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INSTITUTIONS AND SCHOOLS 167

week later two more schools were opened, one for boys
and one for girls, on Bond Street, near Canton Avenue.
For twenty years the boys' schools were taught only by
men, but since then women also have been employed, and
now the greater part of the public school teachers are
women. During the first year there were 269 pupils and
three teachers. The number of each has increased until,
according to the Eleventh Census (1890) there were in
the public schools of Baltimore City —

Whitf. Colored,

Pupils 42,101 6,749.
Teachers 1,171 16

and for the State —

White. Coloted.
