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Edmonton 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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Expenses.—Five precepts on the 24th March, 1914, for £13,450 for
elementary and £50 for higher education; four precepts on the 13th October,
1914, for £9,400 for elementary and £50 for higher education, together
amounting to £22,950, were served on the Overseers to meet the requirements
of public education for the year March, 1914, to March, 1915.
Besides, a very large necessitous grant has been received from a sympathetic
Government, amounting to £16,375, or about a nineteen penny rate; compare
this with £9,216 for last year, which was only an eleven penny rate.