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Paddington 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.

REPORT, 1891-92

Name of Charity.Names and Description of the Trustees for the Current Year.Detailed Description of the Property.Names and Description of the Persons in whom the Property is Vested.Present Annual Income of the Property.Mode of Distribution.
Almshouse Charity (As settled by scheme in Chancery dated 7th August, 1871)Rev. Walter Abbott, M.A. (as Vicar of Paddington) Rev. Alfred Scott(as Vicar of St. Mary's Paddington) James Corry Sherrard, J.P., 7, Oxford Square Edward Parker Young, 30, Westbourne Square, surgeon (1 Vacancy)The site of the Girls and Infants Schools of St. Mary Ground Rents on Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, Romilly Terrace, Harrow Road, (Now 111, 113, 115, 117 & 119, Harrow Road and Engine House, Hermitage Street, and Dividends on £350 14s. 8d., including £160 2s. 2d. (formerly King's Charity)—3 per cent. ConsolsThe Charity CommissionersNoneTo be held for use of such Schools.
£190£50 per Annum to the Treasurer of the Girls' and Infants' Schools in St. Mary's, Paddington, in aid of such Schools, so long as such payment does not cause a reduction in or disallowance of, any Government grant in aid of elementary education; should it do so the Trustees are to be at liberty to apply to the Judge in Chambers, or to the Charity Commissioners, as to the disposition of the said £50 per annum
£1010s.4d.
Augustus Frederick Smith's Bequest (under his will, proved 19 March, 1881)Rev. Walter Abbott, M.A. (as Vicar of Paddington) Col. H. F. Blair, R.E., 1, Clarendon Place Richard Henry Jackson,128, Elgin Avenue, victualler (as Churchwardens of Paddington) Deputy-Surg.-Gen. Charles Moore Jessop, 98, Sutherland Avenue Col. Henry R. Mead, R.E., 83, Glo'ster Terrace (as Overseers of Paddington)Dividends on £9,985 3s. 8d.—3 per Cent. ConsolsThe Charity Commissioners£299 l1s. 1d. (paid in the first instance to the Trustees of the Almshouse Charity)Three Pensions of £12 per annum and Eleven Pensions of £10 per annum to decayed Inhabitants of the age of 65 or upwards, who shall have resided for the space of 15 years in this Parish, and shall not have been in receipt of relief from Poor's Rates
Distributed amongst such or so many poor women (not being married at the time of the receipt thereof) above sixty years of age, resident in Paddington, and in such sums and proportions, not being more than £20 per annum, and not less than £10 per annum, for such persons as the Trustees shall in their discretion think fit and proper
Marion Mayne's CharityRev. Walter Abbott (as Vicar of Paddington) Rev. Alfred Scott (as Vicar of St. Mary's, Paddington) Col. H. F. Blair, R.E., 1, Clarendon Place Richard Henry Jackson,128, Elgin Avenue, victualler (as Churchwardens of Paddington) E. E. Cooper, 8, Howley Place Dr. Arthur Prince, 62, Harrow Road (as Churchwardens of St. Mary's, Paddington)Dividends on £5,516 7s. 7d.—3 per Cent. ConsolsThe Charity Commissioners£1659s.8d.By the Scheme approved by the Master of the Rolls on the 22nd day of June, 1872, the Trustees are to apply the sum of £5 per annum in keeping in repair the tablets, tombstones, and gravestones of Marion Mayne and others; to pay the Vestry of the Parish of Paddington the sum of £35 per annum towards the maintenance in good order of Paddington Green; to distribute to poor deserving residents of Paddington a sum not exceeding £50 in any one year, and to grant annuities not exceeding six shillings per week each to poor aged persons, residents in Paddington.