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St George (Westminster) 1878

[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 Sanitarycondition
of the Parish; together with an Abstract of the
Accounts of the Yestry, 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 Yestry Poor Rate Account, for the
two Half-years ended Lady-day 1879.
During the year there have been 27 Special and
Ordinary Meetings of the Yestry. The average attendance
at these Meetings has been 54 Members. There have also
been 89 Meetings of Committees of Yestry. A Return of
the Attendances of Members at both Yestry and Committee
Meetings, between 1st June, 1878, and 16th May, 1879, is
printed in Appendix No. 1.
A list of the Members of the Yestry for 1879, 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 on the 28th March, 1878,—

In the £.
s.d.
Poor Rate (including Police and County Rates, and Charges for Public Baths and Wash-houses, Burial Ground at Hanwell, Metropolitan District Asylums, Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, and West London School District)l10