The Real Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais of Havana

A subscription society of Havana that ran free primary schools, a public library, a botanical garden, an anatomy museum and a midwifery class, and printed its own accounts. Its 1834 proceedings count 6,080 children taught and 8,000 left without teaching, price the gap at 24,600 pesos a year against 4,600 spent, and count only white children. The same volume treats the cholera dead of 1833 as lost capital.