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Hewett and Councillors Anderson and Garrett its representativeson
the Committee for the current year.
24. On the 18th October, the Committee of Management
passed the following- resolution, viz.:—
(а) That this Committee disapproves of the agreement dated 29th July,.
1907, entered into by a majority of the Trustees and Committee of the
Weir Trust with the Committee of Management of the Bolingbroke Hospital,
and requests the Charity Commissioners not to prepare a scheme
founded upon the provisions of such agreement, the said provisions being
contrary to the intentions of the late Mr. Weir as expressed in his Will.
(b) That the Committee proceed at once with the provision of a hospital
in accordance with the Will.
After considering the evidence given at the Public Inquiry,
the Council, in December last, sealed and presented the following
Memorial to the Charity Commission, viz. :—
TO THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND
WALES.
The Memorial of the Mayor, Aldf.rmf.n, and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Wandsworth.
sheweth:—
1. That the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth comprises the
ancient Parishes of Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting, and Wandsworth,
having an area of fourteen-and-a-half square miles, a rateable value
of £2,005,347, and a population of over 300,000.
2. That under the terms of the Will of the late Benjamin Weir, Esq.,
your Memoralists, as successors of the Streatham Vestry, have entrusted
to them the nomination of three Members of the Committee of Management
of the Weir Hospital Trust.
3. Your Memoralists have had under consideration the proceedings at
the Local Inquiry held by the Charity Commissioners at Balham on the
5th and 8th November, 1907, with respect to the Trust; and desire to call
attention to the very strong and practically unanimous opinion expressed!
at the Inquiry by the Inhabitants of Streatham in opposition to the proposal
to devote a large part of the Trust Funds to the Bolingbroke Hospital,
and in favour of the establishment of a Dispensary, Cottage
Hospital, or Convalescent Home or other Medical Charity, at the Testator's
residence at Balham, in accordance with the directions contained in his
Will, and also, if found practicable, of some similar provision being made
for the requirements of the southern part of the Parish of Streatham.
4. That the Parish of Streatham has an area of 2,823 acres and a
population of over 100,000, and that there is no Cottage Hospital or similar
institution in the Parish.