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Thus leaving a sum of £53,209 2s. 9 c?. expended
under the control of the Vestry.
Workhouse Extension at Little Chelsea, by
Guardians of St. George's Union.
The attention of the Vestry was called on the 7th
January, 1875, to the enormous amount of money (estimated
at about £120,000) being expended by the Guardians of
St. George's Union, in the face of the great decrease in pauperism,
both in the Metropolis and throughout the country, in
purchasing land, in compensation, and building, for enlarging
the Workhouse at Little Chelsea, and the following resolution
was passed thereon, viz.:—
"That the Vestry, as the representatives of the Ratepayers,
inform the Local Government Board that
they view such expenditure with much alarm ;
they fear that this heavy outlay will be made in
the erection of buildings far beyond the requirements
of the Union, and will prove as disastrous
to the Parish, in point of expense, as the erection
of Schools by the Managers of the West London
School District, at Ashford, opposed by the Yestry
and the Guardians of the Poor of the Parish, by
deputation to the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, in
1869, the then President of the Poor Law Board."
A copy of the foregoing resolution was communicated to
the President of the Local Government Board, and a reply