Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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The sum of £253 17s. 7d. is invested in Consols, which
produces £7 12s. 3d. per annum, and is distributed by the
Rector and Churchwardens to the poor of the Parish.
And a further sum of £253 17s. 7d. in Consols, which
produces £7 12s. 3d. per annum, with regard to which,
the Board of Charity Commissioners for England and
Wales, have made an order, appointing the Rector and
Churchwardens Trustees, during the tenure of their several
offices, and their respective successors, to administer the
Charity, and the dividends accruing are to be applied for
the benefit of such poor people residing in the Parish,
with preference to those, who reside in the vicinity of
Grosvenor Chapel, or in case any ecclesiastical district
shall be hereafter assigned to the said Chapel, the income of
the Charity is to be applied, for the benefit of the resident
poor of such district.
Tomlinson's Charity.
Mr. Matthew Tomlinson, by will, dated 28th September,
1835 (proved the same year), gave afreehold house in Staffordstreet
("Goat" P.H.), and the accruing rent therefrom, that
his Executors should annually clothe four poor men and four
poor women in this Parish, and likewise three poor men and
three poor women of the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields;
one of the Overseers of the Poor of each Parish to have
access to the accounts of the Trustees. The poor persons to
be clothed on the day of the month on which the Testator
died.
This Charity is in the hands of five Trustees. The
house realizes £75 per annum, and a sum of £81 10s. 3d.
is invested in New 3 percents., which realizes £2 8s. 8d.
per annum.