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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Newington 1895

Fortieth annual report of the proceedings of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary, Newington, London...

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4. The payment to such men to be at the rate of 6d. an hour, and
ployment to be usually given for two or three days a week, according
to the recommendation of the Guardians, which will be based on the
number of their family, &c.
5. For those whom the Guardians cannot recommend to the Vestry for
employment and cash payment, some labour will be provided by the
Guardians, to be paid for only in kind.
At the same meeting a series of resolutions on the general
question of the unemployed, passed at a conference convened by
the St. Olave's Board of Guardians, was considered; and it was
resolved to advise that Board of the course taken by the Vestry in
concurrence with the St. Saviour's Guardians, and to express the
Vestry's readiness to co-operate in approaching the Government on
the subject.
Messrs. Morgan and Standeven were appointed delegates to
attend a conference on the unemployed question convened by the
North Camberwell Radical Club and Institute on the 13th
December.

Table: Under the conditions detailed in the foregoing resolutions the Vestry continued to give relief work to the unemployed upon certificates from the Relieving Officers from the 30th November 1895 until the 11th April 1896, the amount of wages paid in the several departments being as follows:—

Under the conditions detailed in the foregoing resolutions the Vestry continued to give relief work to the unemployed upon certificates from the Relieving Officers from the 30th November 1895 until the 11th April 1896, the amount of wages paid in the several departments being as follows:—

Roads£57 13 9
Cleansing73 15 0
Depot12 9 3
Dust4 0 3
Total£147 18 3

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Workmen—Pet manent Staff.— An application from the Social
Democratic Federation for a day's holiday to all the Vestry's
workmen on the 1st May 1895, to enable them to join the Working
Men's May-Day Demonstration in Hyde Park, was not acceded to
by the Vestry.
In accordance with the standing order of the 20th March 1895,
300 white metal badges, numbered and lettered and provided with
straps and buckles, were purchased of Messrs. Jenrick & Crocker