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St George (Westminster) 1876

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]

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ANNUAL REPORT.
The Report of the Surveyor on the Works of Road
Maintenance, Paving, Lighting, Cleansing, Watering, Improvement
and Sewerage, is submitted herewith, as also the
Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the Sanitary
condition of the Parish; together with an Abstract of the
Accounts of the Vestry which were allowed and signed
by the Auditors in May last; and the Financial Statements
furnished by the Board of Guardians of St. George's Union,
and the Abstracts of the Vestry Poor Rate Account for the
two Half-years ended Lady-day, 1877.
During the year there have been 24 Special and
Ordinary Meetings of the Vestry. The average attendance
at these Meetings has been 60 Members. There have also
been 97 Meetings of Committees of Vestry. A Return of
the Attendances of Members at both Vestry and Committee
Meetings between 1st June, 1876, and 13th May, 1877, is
printed in Appendix No. 1.
A list of the Members of the Vestry for 1877 is printed
in Appendix No. 2; and a list of the elected Guardians of
St. George's Union for the same year in Appendix No. 3.
The following rates were made by the Yestry during
the year viz.:—
30th March, 1876,—
In the £
s.
d.
Poor Rate (including Police and County Rates,
and Charges for Public Baths and Washhouses,
Burial Ground at Hanwell, Metropolitan
District Asylums, Metropolitan Common
Poor Fund, and West London School District)
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