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That a communication be addressed to the Local
Government Board stating that, in the opinion of
this Vestry, it is desirable that powers should be
given to Yestries and District Boards to send
small-pox and fever patients to the hospitals under
the supervision of the Metropolitan Sick Asylum
Board, the Yestries and District Boards paying
such sums for admission, &c., as shall be agreed
upon between the several bodies, and reimbursing
themselves by charging the same to the patients.
In reply, the Yestry were informed that the President of
the Local Government Board, was about to propose legislation,
dealing with the subject.
Sale of Little Chelsea Workhouse.
It was reported, in the Annual Report for 1876, that
the Yestry had agreed to sell the Workhouse at Little
Chelsea, belonging to the Parish, to the Guardians of St.
George's Union, for the sum of £40,000, and that the
payments of the purchase-money, were to be extended over a
period of nine half-years ; and again, in the Report for 1877,
that the Board of Guardians having declined to seal the
Agreement, which had been arranged by the Solicitors for
the two bodies concerned, the consideration of the matter
had been postponed by the Vestry. An arrangement was
subsequently come to with the Vestry, for the amount of
purchase-money (£40,000), to be paid down by the
Guardians, and the conveyance to be then effected; and on
the 21st February, 1878, the Vestry received the sum of
£40,000, and conveyed the property to the Guardians.
The amount which the Parish had to contribute
towards the above-mentioned purchase-money, was £29,238;
and, in accordance with an order of the Local Government
Board, the balance of £10,762 was subsequently transferred