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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Grosvenor Chapel.—Alterations.
Plans for altering the Reading Desk and the erection of
Choir Seats, having been submitted to the Vestry, by the
late Rev. C. E. Wright the Incumbent, the alterations
were sanctioned, upon condition that Mr. Wright should
obtain the necessary funds, to meet the cost of the work,
and that the majority of the seatholders consent to the
alterations proposed.
Grosvenor Chapel.—Stipend of Incumbent.
The Rev. C. E. Wright, the Incumbent of Grosvenor
Chapel, having died on the 31st December, 1877, and the
Rev. Dean Oldham having been appointed to the Incumbency,
it became the duty of the Vestry, under the
Grosvenor Chapel Act, to fix the amount of Stipend. The
following resolution was passed by the Vestry on the
6th June, 1878, viz.:—
That the Stipend of the Incumbent of Grosvenor
Chapel for the current year be fixed at £550;
that the future Stipend of the Incumbent of
Grosvenor Chapel be two-thirds of the Pew
Rents, unless the Churchwardens advise that the
sums applicable to this payment are insufficient.
Treatment of Epidemic Diseases.
The opinion of the Vestry having been invited, by the
Managers of the Metropolitan District Asylums, on a report
of a Committee of that Board, respecting the provision for
the isolation, and treatment, of epidemic infectious disease in
the Metropolis, by the formation of a Central Sanitary
Authority for the Metropolis, the following resolution was
unanimously come to thereon, and a copy forwarded to the
Local Government Board and the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, viz:—